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…

Now in the mean while David addeth, O let thy judgements help me. This is it which he had in effect before spoken of the saving health of God. For he setteth the Judgements of God against all the helps which men and the faithless are any way able too invent for the seeking of God. For they suppose that they shall be very well holpen else where, when as they shall have their pretty shifts too think that the creatures shall be sufficient enough to help them. When then these worldlings think too bring it so about, to be defended without the aid of God, they must needs be deceived in forgetting the judgements of God: to wit, his providence, whereby he useth to rule the world: as we must be fully assured that he holdeth the ungodly in a bridle, when as they skirmish, & forcibly set them selves to hurt the good and innocent: and that it is too repress the malice of all those which torment his, because he hath taken them into his hand and protection. See then, how the faithful ought to put them selves to the Judgements of God, to wit, to this providence, by which all is disposed and governed. It is very true that God may very well arm all his creatures to defend and maintain us: but yet must we not cease for all that to feel his hand, and too behold it by faith when as it shall help us. We must not cease too see this providence which is hidden from the faithless, because their spirits are wreathed up in horrible darkness.

Now in the meane while Dauid addeth, O let thy iudgements helpe me. This is it which he had in effect before spoken of the sauing health of God. For he setteth the Iudgements of God against all the helpes which men and the faithlesse are any way able too inuente for the seeking of God. For they suppose that they shall bee very well holpen else where, when as they shall haue their prety shiftes too think that the creatures shall be sufficient inough to helpe them. When then these worldlings think too bring it so about, to be defended without the ayde of God, they must needes be deceiued in forgetting the iudgements of God: to wit, his prouidence, whereby he vseth to rule the world: as we must be fully assured that he holdeth the vngodly in a bridle, when as they skirmish, & forcibly set them selues to hurt the good and innocent: and that it is too represse the malice of all those which torment his, because he hath taken them into his hand and protection. See then, how the faithfull ought to put them selues to the Iudgementes of God, to wit, to this prouidence, by which all is disposed and gouerned. It is very true that God may very well arme all his creatures to defende and maintaine vs: but yet must we not cease for all that to feele his hand, and too beholde it by faith when as it shall helpe vs. Wee must not cease too see this prouidence which is hidden from the faithlesse, because their spirites are wreathed vpp in horrible darkenesse.