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…

It importeth moreover that it cannot be but we must hallow the name of God by resting our selves upon him, and by yielding him the whole glory that belongeth too him, when we know that he giveth us all things of his own free goodness, looking for •othing at our hands but only the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Thus ye see how faith importeth all that is contained in the first table of the Law. True it is that the part is put for the whole: howbeit it is too be considered that the things which we have spoken of, cannot be put asunder. Now then it standeth us on hand too live uprightly & indifferently with our neighbours, as it is said in the sixteenth Psalm,¹ that we be beholden to God for all things, and that we cannot yield him any recompense again, and that when we have strained our selves too the uttermost, too bestow aught upon •ym, all that we can do, is neither here nor there too him. What requireth he then? That we should be given too doing of good to his poor faithful ones, according as S. Paul also nameth the Saints expressly in this Text. True it is that we ought too use charity towards all men without exception: for we cannot be the children of God, who maketh his Sun to shine both upon good and bad, except we love our enemies, and strain our selves too succour & help them. That therefore is the mark that we must aim at. Yet notwithstanding this hindereth us not to love all Gods children with a brotherly love, ⟨p. 40⟩because they be knit unto us with a straiter bond. That is the cause why it is said aswell in my forealleged text of the sixteenth Psalm, as in this present one of S. Paul, that we must have love towards all the faithful. Yea and S. Pauls him self in an other place doth well discuss the doubt that may be cast in this behalf. For he willeth us too have charity too all men in general,² and chiefly too such as are of the household of faith. God then will have us too become like him […], and to follow his example in doing good too all men, yea even too […] as are not worthy of it, in so much that we should too the uttermost of our power, procure the welfare of those which seek nothing else but to pick out our eyes. Moreover, for as much as he hath set his ••arke upon all the faithful, and commended them unto us, he will […] us too bear a certain special brotherly love towards them.