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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.
And thus much for this verse. Now David afterward saith,
And thus much for this verse. Now Dauid afterward saith,
My soul is always in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. The ungodly have laid a snare for me: but yet I swerved not from thy commandments.
My soule is always in my hand: yet do I not forget thy lawe. The vngodly haue laide a snare for me: but yet I swarued not from thy commaundements.
Here David protesteth as before, that he had such a resolute affection to follow the word of God, as that no temptations could withdraw him from it. And see how we may say, that we serve God, without hypocrisy & in truth. For if we be easily and gently dealt withal, so we have no affliction, that our God handleth us as we would wish, & leaveth us to our own pleasure, or else, if he so much favoureth us, as that we are not pressed with any griefs and sorrows: it is an easy matter then for us too serve and honour him. But when God afflicteth us, that it seemeth he would oppress and grieve us every minute of an hour, when we see death pursuing us on every side, that the ungodly are wholly about us, as it were ready to pull out our eyes, and our life so wretched; as that the world judgeth us to be as it were reprobates: when then all these temptations shall touch us, and yet we remain still constant praising of God, and holding us unto him, persevering in his obedience, and calling upon him, being patient in all our afflictions, until such time as he delivereth us: when we have all this, we may then say with David, that we have displayed and laid wide open our life to serve God: and this shall be a good and sure proof thereof. But if we have not this constancy, a great number may make a wonderful show of godliness before the face of the world, but all that shall prove nothing. And so, let us well consider of this place: for David spake not this for him self, but for our common instruction. And besides, if we will in deed profit our selves by this doctrine, let us consider that if we sometimes see the apparent dangers of death, so that we be pressed down on every side, not to think it to be any strange thing. And why so? Because the same came too pass as greatly sometimes to David. For he sayeth that he was not without continual trouble. My soul (sayeth he) is always in my hand: