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Sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the.X.Commandments of the Law, given of GodSermons of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the.X.Commandementes of the Lawe, geuen of God
Sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the.X.Commandments of the Law, given of God by Moses, otherwise called the Decalogue. Gathered word for word, presently at his sermons, when he preached on Deuteronomy, without adding unto, or diminishing from them any thing afterward. Translated out of French into English, by I.H.Sermons of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the.X.Commandementes of the Lawe, geuen of God by Moses, otherwise called the Decalogue. Gathered word for word, presently at his sermons, when he preached on Deuteronomie, without adding vnto, or diminishing from them any thing afterward. Translated out of Frenche into English, by I.H.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison, 1579London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison, 1579
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.
So it is not sufficient not to have pronounced expressly by God, but when one sweareth by his faith, or taketh any confirmation from that which hath any sign of the majesty of God, his name is unhallowed in this thing. What shall we say then of them, which use false oaths to disguise their purposes, which swear rashly, even to sport them selves with oaths: yea, to despite God by their execrable blasphemies, in so much that he hath neither flesh nor blood, nor nothing else which they spare? Are these only holden faulty for abusing the name of God? No, but because they use him to the greatest and most execrable reproach, that they may do. Behold our Lord Jesus Christ,1 which made himself of no reputation for a time, (as Saint Paul speaketh) who being the fountain of all ⟨p. 26⟩life, became mortal man, having superiority & dominion over the Angels of Heaven, took the form of a servant, even to shed his blood for our redemption, and in the end to suffer the curse that was due unto us. And now for a recompense of all this, he must at this day be rent and torn in pieces of the carrion and stinking mouths of them which name them selves Christians. For when they swear by his blood, and by his death, and by his wounds, and by this, and by that, is not this as much as in them lieth to crucify the son of GOD, and to tear him as it were in pieces? And are not these altogether worthy to be cut off from God: yea, from the world, and not to be numbered in the band and company of creatures? Must Jesus Christ for abasing, and humbling himself for us, have such a reward at our hands?2 God upbraideth the people of Israel in this sort, O my people,3 what have I done unto thee? I have brought thee out of Egypt, I have conducted thee by the desert, I have nourished thee in all gentleness and sweetness, I have planted thee as in my heritage, that thou shouldest have been as a vine which should have borne me good fruit, I bestowed all labour in keeping and fencing thee, and must thou now be turned into bitterness unto me, and bring forth sour fruit to strangle and to choke me? Now the same appertaineth also at this day unto us. For when the son of GOD, which is appointed Judge of the world, shall come in the last day, he may say unto us, What meaneth this?