Two and twenty sermons of Master John Calvin In which sermons is most religiously…Two and twentie sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin In which sermons is most religiously…

Behold the rebuke which David feared, to wit, that after he had walked well, that God would not leave him as a confounded man: And namely he saith, For thy judgements are good. As if he should have said, Alas, my God, so that I follow the same which thou hast commanded me, although that men speak evil of me and slander me for it, all is one to me, when as my conscience shall be pure and clean, and that thou art my warrant and witness, it is enough\ for me. Behold then, O my God, the rebuke from which I desire to be delivered, to wit, that thou suffer me not to be wickedly given, nor that I depart from thy commandments: but let my life and conversation be agreeable to thy word. O that sufficeth me: and let men speak what them list, their judgement is false, and I appeal from them.

Behold the rebuke which Dauid feared, to wit, that after he had walked well, that God would not leaue him as a confounded man: And namely he sayth, For thy iudgements are good. As if he should haue saide, Alas, my God, so that I followe the same which thou hast commaunded mee, although that men speake euill of me and slaunder me for it, all is one to mee, when as my conscience shalbe pure and cleane, and that thou art my warrant and witnesse, it is enough\ for me. Behold then, O my God, the rebuke from which I desire to be deliuered, to witte, that thou suffer me not to be wickedly giuen, nor that I depart from thy commaundements: but let my life and conuersation be agreable to thy worde. O that suffiseth me: and let men speake what them liste, their iudgement is false, and I appeale from them.

Then to conclude he sayeth, My delight is in thy commandments: O quicken me in thy righteousness. The righteousness of God oftentimes is taken for the grace which God useth towards his children, or at the leastwise wherewith he conducteth them. But he setteth down righteousness here, for right, and equity. He hath said before, quicken me according to thy word: Now by and by after followeth righteousness. Neither must we think this to be strange, for we have showed here before, that David speaking of the commandments of GOD, after that he hath used his term namely of these words, ordinances and statutes, he taketh other words. As in this place, after he hath said, quicken me in thy word, he sayeth soon after, In thy righteousness. And he maketh also this request, that he might be conducted in the way of the Lord. Whereby he would show, that it is not enough that we be well affected, but that God must increase the same in us, yea, he must conduct and quicken us, as here he telleth us. For it is so far off, that of