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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.
You have borne my name to be called Christians, you have been baptised, in witness and testimony that I was your redeemer: I have drawn you forth of the deep dungeon, wherein you were plunged, I have delivered you from everlasting death, by the cruel death which I suffered, and for this cause I became man, I submitted my self to the malediction of GOD my Father, to the end you might be blessed by my grace, and by my mean. And behold the reward you have rendered me. I have been rent in pieces of you, I have been as a •easting stock, the death which I have suffered hath been had in derision and mockery, my blood which is the washing of your souls, was as it were trampled under your feet: briefly, you have taken all occasion to blaspheme and to rail on me, as if I had been a wretched and miserable creature. When ⟨image 30⟩When this shall be rebukefully told us of our sovereign Judge, will not this be to thunder on us, and to throw us down to the bottomless pit of hell? And yet notwithstanding, there are very few of us, which deeply consider of this. For if superfluous oaths were at this day had in such great horror and detestation, as they should be, men would not yield unto them selves any time hereafter such an outrageous boldness and liberty of swearing and forswearing. As for blasphemies, see we not how common and rife they are? And in the mean time we will be very zealous for our own honour and reputation, when the name of God is so trodden under feet amongest us. If one speak any thing reproachfully of ones father, he will make a great quarrel of it, or enter some action of slander: yea, many will revenge them selves by their own hands, and by all means they may on every side: and it seemeth to them, that they have an honest excuse to take upon them the defence of their fathers. Behold our sovereign father shall sustain wrong and injury, behold in like manner our Lord Jesus Christ, who not without cause is named The Lord of glory, before whom every knee ought to bow,1 as Saint Paul speaketh to the Philippians,2 lo he (I say) shall be mocked, than which despite none could be wrought him greater, except a man would spit in his face: and yet notwithstanding, they which name them selves Christians, which make a countenance of procuring and maintaining his honour, will not be moved any whit therewith: