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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
[…] hath chosen us in Christ, before the foundation of the […]: too the end we should be holy and unblamable […] him, in Love. […] hath predestinated us too adopt us too himself by […] Christ, according too the good pleasure of his vvill. […] the praise of the glory of his grace, wherethrough he […] accepted us in his well-beloved.
〈…〉 hath choozen vs in Christ, before the foundation of the 〈…〉: too the end vvee should bee holy and vnblamable 〈…〉 him, in Loue. 〈…〉 hath predestinated vs too adopt vs too himself by 〈…〉 Christ, according too the good pleasure of his vvill. 〈…〉 the praise of the glory of his grace, vvherethrough he 〈…〉 accepted vs in his vvelbeloued.
I Began too show you this morning that it is not lawful for us too take liberty too looseness, under colour that God hath chosen us before the making of the world: as though it were meet for us too give over our selves too all naughtiness, because we cannot perish, seeing that God hath taken us for his children.1 For we must not put the things a sunder which he hath […] together. Seeing then that he hath chosen us too be holy, […] in pureness of life: our election must be as a root that […] good fruits. For so long as God lets us alone in our own […] we can do nothing but all manner of naughtiness, because […] so great corruption and frowardness in ma••es nature, that […] they think or do, is contrary too Gods righteousness. […] there is none other shift but too be changed by God. And […] •ommeth this change, but only of the grace that we spake […] for that he did elect and choose us for his children, before […] borne into the world? Herewithall we have too mark […], that God letteth his chosen ones go for a time, so as they […] too be strayed away & utterly lost, & yet bringeth them home […] too his flock when it pleaseth him. And that serveth too […] the more, and too make his goodness and mercy so much the […] known too the whole world. If God should make all his […] too walk in perfectness of conversation even from their […]: it should not be so well discerned, that the same […] of the grace of his holy spirit. But when wretched folk that