The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously…The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously…

20 And both may stand very well.¹

1. 11. Cor. 13.9

21 The faithful so oft as they are stricken with fear, do so labour by Gods word,¹ and betake themselves again into Gods bosom, that they fly not from God, when he punisheth, but trust in him. Neither doeth unbelief reign in the harts of the godly, but outwardly assaileth them, neither doth she deadly wound them with her weapons, but only trouble them, or so hurteth them that yet the wound is curable.² For faith serveth us for a shield: that being holden up against weapons, doeth so receive the force of them, that it either utterly driveth them back, or at least so breaketh their violence, that they can not pierce us to danger of life. Therefore when faith is shaken, it is like as if a strong soldier with the violent stroke of a dart be compelled to remove his foot & give ground a little: and when faith it self is wounded, it is like as if his buckler by some stroke be in some part broken, but yet so that it is not stricken through. for always the godly mind will attain to ⟨image 110⟩rise thus high:³ If I walk in the middest of the shadow of death: I will not fear any evil, because thou art with me.

21 The faythfull so oft as they are stroken with feare, doe so labour by Gods word,¹