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Thirteen sermons of Master John Calvin, entreating of the free election of God in…Thirteene sermons of Maister Iohn Caluine, entreating of the free election of God in…
Thirteen sermons of Master John Calvin, entreating of the free election of God in Jacob, and of reprobation in Esau A treatise wherein every Christian may see the excellent benefits of God towards his children, and his marvellous judgements towards the reprobate, first published in the French tongue, & now translated into English, by John Field, for the comfort of all Christians.Thirteene sermons of Maister Iohn Caluine, entreating of the free election of God in Iacob, and of reprobation in Esau A treatise wherin euery Christian may see the excellent benefites of God towardes his children, and his maruelous iudgements towards the reprobate, firste published in the French toung, & now translated into English, by Iohn Fielde, for the comfort of all Christians.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Man and Toby Cooke, 1579London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Man and Tobie Cooke, 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.
Now admit we be never so much despised of worldlings, that we seem not worthy too them (as a man would say) to be caste too the Dogs: Yet howsoever it be, forasmuch as God hath once declared that we are his flock, and that ⟨image 104⟩he hath taken us into his charge, let us assure our selves, that he will not fail us, when we shall be assaulted of them who torment us, and to whom it seemeth, that God must not touch them. But moreover Moses addeth: That Isaac sowing, he gathered an hundred measures.
Nowe admitte wee be neuer so much despysed of worldlings, that wee seeme not woorthy too them (as a man woulde say) to be caste too the Dogges: Yet howsoeuer it be, forasmuch as God hath once declared that wee are his flock, and that ⟨image 104⟩he hath taken vs into his charge, let vs assure our selues, that he wil not fayle vs, when we shall bee assaulted of them who torment vs, and to whome it seemeth, that God must not touch them. But moreouer Moyses addeth: That Isaack sowing, he gathered an hundred measures.
That is to say, an hundred times as much as he sowed. Here a question might be asked, seeing Isaac had not one foot of land, how he could sow. But some imagine that he had purchased some there: but this were against all reason. For it must be that the fathers content them selves, with the promise which was given them, and that they dwell in the land of promise as strangers. And in deed, it is said soon after, that Isaac pitched his tents, to declare that he had no certain house nor building. We see therefore that he was a vagabond in earth, as was his father Abraham: but he might well higher some land to sow therein: For he had a great family: as we saw Abraham him self had, who gathered out of his house more then four hundred chosen men, to enter into battle. Isaac had not much diminished it as we see: likewise it must be that he could not be much increased, especially dwelling in a strange country: he had hired some farm or taken some land to sow therein: according as we know that the ancient fathers, although God had enriched them, yet they ceased not to give them selves to labour both they and their household. For although they