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…

•••essed (sayeth he) be the God and father of our Lord Jesus […], which hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in hea•••ly things, or in heavenly places in Christ. Forasmuch as the chief […] which God requireth at mens hands, is that they should acknowledge his benefits and be thankful too him for them: S. Paul […] •sidereth first of all, how the same may provoke them too do their […]: For we be so reckless, as it is▪ pity too see. We can well […] confess, that our chief study and endeavour ought too be too […] a well ordered life: that is too wit, to praise God. For if a man ask us wherefore we be in this world, wherefore God hath such a care of us, wherefore his goodness feedeth and cherisheth us, & finally […] he doth as it were put out our eyes with the great number […] which he bestoweth upon us: it is too the end we should […] some acknowledgement of them unto him. For (as it is said in […] Psalm) we […] our side cannot profit him at all, neither requireth […] else of us in exchange than thanksgiving, according as it is […] in the hundred and sixteenth Psalm, What shall I render too the […] for all the benefits which I have received of him, but only too […] the cup of welfare at his hand, and too call upon his name? […] see then that all that ever we can bring unto God, is but too acknowledge our selves bound too him for all things. And yet for all that […] dischargeth his duty, no nor the hundredth part of it in that behalf, but rather all of us from the greatest too the least do defraud […] of it, in as much as we cease not through our lewdness, to bury […] praise, which ought too ring […] in our mouths. For this cause […] Lord rebuketh us for our negligence, for whereas the holy scripture exhorteth us too praise God, and useth so many words too that purpose: let us not think that they be super•••ous: but let us acknowledge them too be as many upbraidings of our churlishness and unkindness for failing in the thing that is so requisite, and (as ye would […]) the principal point of our life. True it is that the holy Ghost •ooth oftentimes set forth other reasons why we should magnify Gods name, as the order of nature, the fruits which the earth yieldeth ⟨image 22⟩the aid and help which God giveth us & such other things: and those are sufficient matter wherefore too praise God. But S.