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The sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the Epistle of S. Paul too the…The sermons of M. Iohn Caluin, vpon the Epistle of S. Paule too the…
The sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the Epistle of S. Paul too the Ephesians. Translated out of French into English by Arthur GoldingThe sermons of M. Iohn Caluin, vpon the Epistle of S. Paule too the Ephesians. Translated out of French into English by Arthur Golding
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Lucas Harison, 1577
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The .xlii. Sermon, which is the tenth upon the fifth Chapter.
The .xlii. Sermon, which is the tenth vppon the fifth Chapter.
31 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined too his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh. 32 This is a great secret. Yea, say I, in Christ and in the Church. 33 Therefore, do ye so, as every man may love his wife as himself, and let the wife fear her husband.
31 For this cause shall a man leaue father and moother, and bee ioyned too his vvyfe, and they shalbee twoo in one flesh. 32 This is a great secret. Yea, say I, in Christ and in the Church. 33 Therefore, doo yee so, as euery man may loue his wyfe as himselfe, and let the wyfe feare hir husband.
God doth so dispose his works, as we have occasion too behold a wonderful wisdom in all his doings, and too receive such instruction by them, as may be too our benefit: as (for example) in that which Saint Paul allegeth here, namely that the woman was drawn and taken out of the substance of the man. For God could well have created Eve after the same manner that he created Adam. But he […], and commandeth woman too be sha•ed thereof. And whereto tendeth this, but that there should be such an ⟨image 317⟩union between man and wife, as he might think, this is my flesh, this is my bone: and she, whence hath God given me life? whence hath he shaped me? Even of a rib that he took out of man. We see then that God did not without cause use such diversity in creating man and woman. It was too the end it should be continually minded in wedlock, so as the husband might know that he breaketh the whole order of nature, if he be not united in good agreement too his wife: and the wife likewise, if she submit not hselfe quietly too her husband, acknowledging him too be her head. But Saint Paul applieth this further, to the union which is between our Lord Jesus Christ and his Church. For (as was declared upon Sunday) wedlock is as a figure of the knitting together which is between us and the Son of God. And therefore he crieth out, saying, It is a high mystery, that is too say, a secret which we ought too take very good heed of, Yea (sayeth he) in Jesus Christ and in his Church. There are then two things too be noted here.