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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.
to infer upon that, that we have Free will, but not so constant. Now when S. Paul speaketh in the 3. to the Roma. of the will of man, such as it is by nature, he deciphereth plainly enough, that there is nothing but perversity and malice: as also in the 8. chap. he saith, that all our thoughts are enmities to God. Mark then how this agreeth with that which this ttoublecoast chatteth, saying that God reneweth us, after that we have consented to his calling. And he is not ashamed to allege to the same purpose the 5. to the Ephesians, where he speaketh thereof as of the fables of Marlin: but contrariwise he saith in the same epistle: When you were dead in your sins, and the captives of Satan, and that ye ⟨image 182⟩were the children of wrath as others, God hath quickened you, &c. And in the first chap. he showeth well, that faith and regeneration proceeded from no other thing, then Free election. And in deed, it must needs be that God accomplish in us that which he hath spoken by his prophet Isaiah, in the 66. chap. I appeared unto them, which sought me not. And lo why John Baptiste, reproving the rudeness and hardness of his disciples, saith in the 3. chap. of S. John. No man can receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven. And which is worst, this troubler is not ashamed also to bring this place, that God giveth both to will and to perform, to make us believe, that the grace of God followeth our good will: howsoever it be that S. Paul in that place without leaving any thing too men, would attribute the whole praise of our salvation to God: as he saith in the first chap. that he which hath begun the good work of salvation, will finish it. Wherein it must be, that he make the grace of god to come after the tail of Freewill.
to inferre vpon that, that we haue Free will, but not so constant. Now when S. Paule speaketh in the 3. to the Roma. of the will of mā, such as it is by nature, he decyfreth plainly inough, that there is nothing but peruersitie and malice: as also in the 8. chap. he saith, that al our thoughts are enmities to God. Mark thē how this agreeth with that which this ttoublecoast chatteth, saying that God reneweth vs, after that we haue consented to his calling. And he is not ashamed to alledge to the same purpose the 5. to the Ephesiās, where he speaketh therof as of the fables of Marlin: but contrariwise he saith in the same epistle: When you were dead in your sinnes, and the captiues of Satan, and that ye ⟨image 182⟩