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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.
The seventeenth Sermon upon the hundred and nineteenth Psalm.
The seuenteenth Sermon vpon the hundreth and nineteenth Psalme.
PHE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. The entrance into thy words: showeth light, and giveth understanding unto the simple. I opened my mouth and panted: because I loved thy commandments. Look thou upon me and be merciful unto me: as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my steppes in thy word: and let no wickedness have dominion over me. O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men: and I will keep thy commandments. Show the light of thy countenance upon thy servant: and teach me thy statutes. Mine eyes gush out with rivers of water: because men keep not thy law.
PHE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soule keepe them. The entrance into thy wordes: sheweth light, and giueth vnderstanding vnto the simple. I opened my mouth and panted: bicause I loued thy commaundementes. Looke thou vpon me and be mercifull vnto me: as thou vsest to do vnto those that loue thy name. Order my steppes in thy worde: and let no wickednesse haue dominion ouer me. O deliuer me from the wrongfull dealings of men: and I will keepe thy commandements. Shewe the light of thy countenance vpon thy seruant: and teach me thy statutes. Mine eyes gushe out with ryuers of water: bicause men keepe not thy lawe.
IN very deed the sentence contained in this first verse of the eight, should be a very ordinary and common thing with us. And in very deed there is no man but will confess it to be true: but yet it is so very far of, as that there is none of us all which hath the feeling thereof in him self: that is, that the law of God is a wonderful wisdom: for we do see how it is contemned and despised. It is very true that God in all