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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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And were this point throughly […] world should not float so continually, nor […] so as it doth. […] most men now adays are caryed est one & est another, & doo nothing else but wander. The Papists on the one side have their pride too keep them from continuing right forth unto God: they will […] have their freewill, and their […] what the grace of Jesus Christ […] themselves from it as much as they ran: And God in the mean season payeth then as they be worthy. For as for them that are so fore possessed with that devilish selfmeening, that they can dispose their life in such wise, as too be able and came unto God, and too deserve somewhat at his hand, and again, have their […] with him, when they have done […]: when they have such things too themselves, all slippeth away like wind, & they […] unto the other extremity, saying show shall we be […] if we have not […] And so are they […] ⟨image 109⟩whereof Jesus Christ is all the while unregarded: they make them byways, and go not too Jesus Christ who is the true way. Forasmuch then as they leave the right way which cannot mislead them: they must ne•des wander now […] one side, and now on the other, and after long tiring of themselves, break both their arms and legs, and in the end find that the further they proceed, the further they go back from God. So much the more therefore doth it stand us on hand too weigh these words of S. Paul, where we be warranted that we shall be received lovingly at the hand of our God, if we have Jesus Christ for our peace, and rest wholly thereupon. And for the same cause […] join thereto the […] of the text, by me already alleged, namely,1 you shall find rest too your fowls. Whereby our Lord Jesus Christ doth us too understand, that all such as separate themselves from him, and are not contented too have hi• for their mediator, shall ever be• unquiet, and although they assure themselves, and bear themselves in hand with this and that, yet nevertheless they are afterward afraid, and find no resting place too stay their foot on, neither have they any safe harborough wherein too eschew the storm. Therefore it standeth us upon too go too our Lord Jesus Christ, and too he throughly resolved that he is our peace, if we intend too call upon God freely and without any doubting.