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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.
GIMEL. Be beneficial unto thy Servant: that I may live & keep thy word, Open mine eyes, that I may see the wondrous things of thy law. I am a stranger upon Earth: hide not thy commandments from me. My hart breaketh out: for the desire unto thy judgements always. Thou hast destroyed the proud: cursed are they that do err from all thy Commandments. ⟨p. 19⟩Remove from me shame and contempt: for I have kept thy Testimonies. Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy Servant did meditate in thy statutes. Also thy Testimonies are my delight and my counsellors.
GIMEL. Bee beneficiall vnto thy Seruant: that I may liue & keepe thy woorde, Open mine eies, that I may see the wondrous things of thy lawe. I am a straunger vpon Earth: hide not thy commandements from me. My hart breaketh out: for the desire vnto thy iudgementes alwaies. Thou hast destroyed the proude: cursed are they that doo erre from all thy Commaundements. ⟨p. 19⟩Remoue from mee shame and contempte: for I haue kept thy Testimonyes. Princes also did sitte and speake against mee: but thy Seruant did meditate in thy statutes. Also thy Testimonyes are my delight and my counsaylers.
IT shall greatly have profited us, if so be we have learned what the end of our life is. For, for that cause, hath God placed, and bringeth us up in the world: and yet few there are which think upon it. True it is, that every man will say, that it is good reason we should do homage too GOD for our life and being, because we hold all of him: and that we should glorify him with so much of our goods as he hath largely bestowed upon us. But what of all this? When as we have confessed that, it is but to show our ingratitude and unthankfulness: and yet no man maketh any account hereof. Lo here, wherefore the holy Ghost, seeing us so tied to the world, putteth us in mind too what end we live here. As here David maketh this request to God too obtain that benefit of his Majesty: That he might live and keep his word: As if he should have said, I desire not O Lord to live for my self alone in this world to receive here my pleasures and commodities: but desire it too an other more precious and excellent end than that: to wit, that I might serve thee. Even so then, as often as we are desirous to live, we must remember us of this request which David maketh: That is, that we should not be like unto brute beasts, living we know not to what end: but that we should always aim at this make, to honour GOD. For without this we