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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…
Two and twenty sermons of Master John Calvin In which sermons is most religiously handled, the hundredth and nineteenth Psalm of David, by eight verses apart according to the Hebrew alphabet. Translated out of French into English by T.S.Two and twentie sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin In which sermons is most religiously handled, the hundredth and nineteenth Psalme of Dauid, by eight verses aparte according to the Hebrewe alphabet. Translated out of Frenche into Englishe by T.S.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harrison and Thomas Man, 1580London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harrison and Thomas Man, 1580
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.
Let us therefore throughly consider of this sentence which David hath here couched, that God having promised him to be his saviour, hath quickened him in this, yea in the middest of his afflictions, as if he had said, O Lord, since it is so, that I have a testimony of thy good will and love, I ought not to be discouraged, nor faint hearted, for whatsoever may come to pass. Now it followeth,
Let vs therefore throughly consider of this sentence which Dauid hath here couched, that God hauing promised him to be his sauiour, hath quickened him in this, yea in the middest of his afflictions, as if he had saide, O Lorde, since it is so, that I haue a testimonie of thy good will and loue, I ought not to be discouraged, nor faint hearted, for whatsoeuer may come to passe. Now it followeth,
The wicked, or proud have had me exceedingly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
The wicked, or proud haue had me exceedingly in derision: yet haue I not declined from thy lawe.
Here David showeth his constancy in resisting the temptations and combats wherewith Satan assailed him. For behold how our faith shall be rightly and duly ⟨image 63⟩approved: to wit, when as we shall be assailed, and when as the devil shall think that he hath gotten the better of us, yet must we persevere and still continue to trust in God: lo, I say, a good proof of our faith. And this is it that David meaneth to signify in this place: for it is an easy matter, when as we shall have no temptations to trouble us, to take a taste of the promises of GOD, and to hope that he will do that which he hath spoken. But when as we shall be tormented with afflictions, then the devil cometh and putteth us in mind of many irksomenesses, and fantasies, as if God were retired and gone far from us, and that the wicked and ungodly make a mock at our simplicity: when I say, that we are so assailed: then must our faith show it self, whether it be true or not. And if then we shall constantly persevere without being vanquished and overcome, O see now a sure and certain sign that we have believed in good earnest and not hypocritically, that we have not taken his word in vain, but it hath been lively rooted in our souls. Let us then well note, that if we will have a true proof of our faith, and learn too speak in truth that we have trusted in God, and his promises: it is meet that we should feel very boisterous assaults: and yet for all that, we have not been forsaken and left, until such time as we withdraw our selves from God.