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…

This was yet another great temptation to David aswell as the other, that it so fell out as that he was once driven out of the country of Judea & was far from the temple of God, & dwelt among the Pagans and Infidels. Now he saith, that notwithstanding all this, that he was not estranged from God, nor yet from the knowledge of salvation: but contrariwise, that he was the rather stirred up to sing praises unto God, and those Psalms which God did put in his mouth, yea even such as were taken out of the law. For we have to note, that David made not the Psalms, as a new doctrine ne yet as a doctrine separate from the doctrine of the law: but drew them from it as out of a Fountain.

This was yet another great temptation to Dauid aswel as the other, that it so fel out as that he was once driuen out of the countrie of Iudea & was far from the temple of God, & dwelt among the Pagans and Infidels. Nowe he sayth, that notwithstanding al this, that hee was not estraunged from God, nor yet from the knowledge of saluation: but contrariwise, that he was the rather stirred vp to sing prayses vnto God, and those Psalmes which God did put in his mouth, yea euen such as were taken out of the law. For we haue to note, that Dauid made not the Psalmes, as a newe doctrine ne yet as a doctrine separate from the doctrine of the lawe: but drew them from it as out of a Fountaine.

So then it is not without cause that he protesteth here that the Statutes of God served him for Psalms and for songs, yea in stead of his Pilgrimages, that is to say, in a strange Country in the middest of Infidels, when he was as it were banished from the Church, that he could not be in the Temple to make confession of his faith, yet was he not for all this wickedly addicted. Now here, they which are travellers, are admonished of their duty. For albeit they see a great many of enormities committed in the world, nevertheless they are steadfastly purposed to hold themselves in the fear of God, and to walk in a pure and sound conscience, albeit they are mingled amongst the infidels. As behold even the very Christians which are in the Papacy, although they are there prisoners, having no doctrine preached unto them, without liberty to serve God publicly, and to make confession of their faith as they would: yet do they not exceed and outrage with the rest in these villainies which reign amongest them: but confirm themselves the best they can to the word of God, take all their delight and pleasure therein, and make the law of God their song, which maketh them to withdraw themselves from all the vanities and corruptions which they commit, so that they keep them selves within this compass.