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…

Secondly although baptism serve not peculiarly for any one people, City or Country: yet are we as ye would say, marked out by God, when he giveth us the use of his Sacraments, to assure us of his adoption, and too nourish the hope that he hath given us by his Gospel. It is true that they which shrink away from our Lord Jesus Christ, do after a sort make their baptism vain: but that shall cost them right deer, because the pledge and earnest penny which God gi•eth us, too show that we be joined too our Lord Jesus Christ, and are clothed with him (as it is said in the xii. Chapter of the first too the Corinthians) is too precious a thing (too be so misused.) And therefore all they that inhonour themselves with the name of the Church, and yet notwithstanding are disordered and dissolute persons, shall one day feel what a traitor •••nesse it is too have so unhallowed their baptism, which God had ordained for their salvation. But let us on our side •ake heed, that we walk as folks shoaled out from the filth of the world:¹ for (as sayeth S. Peter) the very cause why our Lord Jesus Christ hath gathered us unto him, is, that we should glorify him for delivering of us out of the darkness of this world and of the devil, into his own light. And we have seen heretofore in the Epistle too the Galatians, how Jesus Christ will have his death serve, too draw us from all the uncleanness and filthiness of the world. Likewise in the first too the Thessalonians S.² Paul sayeth, that we be not called too uncleanness, but that we ought too be pure, and too dedicate our selves too our God in pureness, so as we may show in deed, that we intend too honour him with all that ever he hath given us. The thing then which we have to gather upon those words of S. Paul, is, that we must not run astray like wild and mad beasts, nor yet kick against him, but quietly bear the yoke of our ⟨image 111⟩God, and approach unto him with true obedience, and moreover […] our own wandering lusts, too the end we may walk like holy people, like people that are dedicated too God, & finally as his heritage. Thus ye see how this text is too be practised of us at this day.