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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.
that we be no more so much given to all these vain follies of the world, but that we may look unto the principal thing. Let us now come to that which followeth. He sayeth,
that we be no more so much giuen to all these vayne follies of the world, but that we may looke vnto the principal thing. Let vs now come to that which followeth. He sayeth,
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser then mine enemies, teachers, and ancients.
Thou through thy commaundementes hast made mee wiser then mine enemies, teachers, and auncientes.
He setteth down here three sorts of people, with whom he compareth him self, and saith, that God hath bestowed this grace upon him to surpass them all. Now here David showeth unto us, what profit shall redound unto us, when as we shall read the word of God, after his example: to wit, that we shall get thereby such wisdom as shall defend us from our enemies to be better learned then our teachers, and those which otherwise should have bin in stead of our instructors. To be short, that all the men of the world shall not have that which we shall find there, and that all the wisdom which is in all the creatures of God, deserveth not to be equal and comparable too it. Lo here in effect, that which he meaneth. Now we ought always to call to mind that which we have already touched. When as David here setteth down him self in the first rank, and sayeth, that he hath surpassed his enemies, teachers, and those which were the most wise, and of greatest understanding, that this is not too attribute any thing unto him self, ⟨p. 107⟩and to his own person: but to the end that God might be glorified in him: and that we might know what profit shall redound unto us by the word of God, when as we shall give our selves unto it. We see then that David had no regard to him self, but meaneth rather to give us occasion to glorify God. And besides his purpose is to stir us up to the love, as we have already touched, which he had to the word of God: knowing the same to be so profitable for us. For what is the cause that we are so very negligent, as in deed we are, in giving our selves to the study of the holy scripture: that we think it to be even labour and time lost if we only spend but one hour of the day therein? What is the cause of such contempt? Verily because we know not the profit that might come unto us thereby: for if we were thus persuaded that all our wisdom is and consisteth in the word of GOD, and that without it we are like unto miserable beasts: so that Satan hath caught and holdeth us fast bound in his grins and snares, and that we cannot err in all the whole course of our life if we know this: and again, that it is sufficient that God hath taught us, and so have thereby such a clear light, as that will never fail us, that we be fenced against all the ambushes of Satan, and against all the villainies and deceits of the world: