Sermons of M. John Calvin upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the GalatiansSermons of M. Iohn Caluine vpon the Epistle of Saincte Paule to the Galathians

And that shall serve for one point. Howbeit that is not yet all. For there […] that can grant them selves too be sinners, and that there is nothing in them but vanity: and yet notwithstanding they welter nevertheless in their own filthy dung. And why▪ For they conceive ⟨image 344⟩not Gods justice, but are (as ye would say) doted in this world. None of all these unthrifts which give them selves over to drunkenness, or to whoredom, or to such other lewdness, can excuse their villainies, but that they are fain to be ashamed of them: and yet nevertheless they delight in them, and continue still in them as if they were hardened. And why? Because they be made drunken with this world, and the devil hath so closed up their eyes, that they see not how they must one day come to account. They play the amazed men, and bear them selves in hand that they shall always stand at a stay, and so they go forward with their naughtiness, and never sigh nor be sorry for the matter, but are always laughing at it, as though they meant to spite God wilfully. We see then that one sort is letted, yea or rather utterly turned back from coming to Jesus Christ, because they presume upon their own wisdom, and are possessed with an imagination that Satan hath put into their head, so that too their own seeming they be wise enough without Jesus Christ, and therefore they hold scorn of him. The other sort (which are infinite in number) notwithstanding that they knowledge themselves to be wretched sinners: do nevertheless not seek the remedy. And why? For this present world possesseth them, and they be so wrapped in it, as they can not lift up their eyes, nor their minds, to seek the remedy that is ready for them in Jesus Christ. So much the more need therefore have we to mind the thing that I have touched already: that is too wit, that we must rid our selves of all selfetrust and overweening, and be so grieved as we may never be in rest till we have found succour in our Lord Jesus Christ. And let us not only open our eyes to see our own foulness, and to be ashamed of it: but also let us consider that this life is nothing, and that God hath set us here as in a wayfaring, wherein he intendeth to try whether we will come to him or no.

And that shall serue for one poynte. Howebeeit that is not yet all. For there 〈…〉 that can graunte them selues too bee sinners, and that there is nothing in them but vanitie: and yet notwithstanding they welter neuerthelesse in their own filthy dung. And why For they cōceyue