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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.
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 ⟨image 32⟩lived loo•ely, and were given too all naughtiness for a time, are quite changed: that cannot come too pass without Gods working & putting too of his hand. Thus ye see that the cause why God delayeth the calling of those whom he had chosen, is (say I) too touch them too the quick by his holy spirit, that he may make them too walk in his obedience. For when we see them reformed upon the sudden, and beyond the common expectation and opinion of men: therein we perceive that God hath uttered his power in them, as I said afore. And again on the other part, every of us is convicted by experience, that we be beholden too God for all the good that is in us. For when we be naturally inclined too any vice, and afterward the same is corrected: we perceive well that God hath looked mercifully upon us.