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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
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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.
[…] by those two words, S. Paul meant also too stir […] a greater and feruenter earnestness of praising God. For it […] enough for us too confess coldly, that our salvation springeth of […] good will: but we must be as it were inflamed too […] selves wholly too his praise, as if we were wholly wedded to […] as S. Peter showeth,1 that forasmuch as we be drawn […] darkness of death, it is good reason that we should be […] the unutterable praises of God.2 And hereby he doeth us too […], that when the faithful have strained themselves too the […],3 too discharge themselves in praising Gods goodness: yet […] never compass it, because it is a thing incomprehensible. […] well therefore what we have too bear in mind. And so, upon […] or grace whereof he speaketh, it behoveth us too gather […], shall never yield God his dew glory, till they be utterly […], so as there remaineth not any thing at all in them for too glory […] us put the ca•e that Gods election were never thought of: […] he therefore cease too be praised? No: but he should have ⟨image 36⟩some piece of his praise still. For if men should say no more but that God causeth his daysunne too shine upon them,4 that were a cause too praise him. And when we open our eyes too look upward and downward upon the wonderful works that he showeth us, the same is a large provocation too exercise us in his praise all our life long. Moreover, when his Gospel is preached unto us, there also we have whereof too praise him, though no mention at all be made of his election: I say there is enough as in respect of us, but then should he be robbed of his chief praise, and we should yield him but a piece of that which is dew to him. And why so? For the faithful should think that they have faith of their own selfmoving and free inclined will. I told you this morning, that faith is a fruit of election. For there is none other odds between us and the unbelievers, but that God reached us his hand, and drew us too him by a secrete mean, at such time as we turned our backs upon him, and were strangers too him.