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…

there are some nations more sinful than othersome, and there are some men more stubborn and malicious than others, but yet there will always some virtue be found in some other men. Nay, sayeth S. Paul: for it is the common course of the world. As if he should say, it is so natural (too all men,) as there is no disputing whether one man be bad, a•d another good.¹ For like as fish is made too suck up water: so ar• we suckled, or rather made stark drunken withal manner of iniquities ⟨p. 63⟩and sins. We be so filled and stuffed with them, that we burst again. Thus ye see how S. Paul meant here, not too rebuke some one sort of men, but too show all men without exception what their state is, till God have redressed it. Therefore let us open our eyes, and look into the thing that S. Paul sayeth, and we shall perceive that all our worthiness and nobleness is deciphered unto us here, here are our arms blazed: that is too wit, that we be but dead men, till God quicken us by his mere grace. Again, too the end we should know that this death proceedeth not from elsewhere than of our own sins: it is said, that we be all corrupted, that there is nothing in us but faults, sins, and offences, and that all our whole life beareth record thereof, so as the fruit showeth what the root is. And on the other side, that our starting aside is not for once and no more, but that we tend wholly thither, that is too say, too evil: we be inclined thereunto, nay rather we be carried headlong thereunto, yea and we be driven with such a rage, that we never cease striving against God, till he have brought us in subjection too him by his holy spirit.

there are some nations more sinfull than othersome, and there are some mē more stubborne and malicious than others, but yet there will alwayes some vertew bee found in some other men. Nay, sayeth S. Paule: for it is the common course of the worlde. As if he should saye, it is so naturall (too all men,) as there is no disputing whether one man bee bad, a•d another good.¹ For like as fishe is made too suck vp water: so ar• we suckled, or rather made starke drunken withall maner of iniquities