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Sermons upon the Book of Job
Sermons of Master John Calvin, upon the book of Job. Translated out of French by Arthur GoldingSermons of Master Iohn Caluin, vpon the booke of Iob. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding
London: printed by Henry Bynneman for Lucas Harison and George Byshop, 1574
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
8 Who vvill cause my desire to come to pass, and that God may send me my longing? 9 Which is, that he should break me in pieces, and that he should stretch out his hand and cut me off. 10 For then should I yet have comfort: I should rejoice in my grief: let him not spare me, and I vvill not deny the words of the holy one. 11 What is my strength, that I should be able to endure? and what is mine end if I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones' or is my flesh of steel? 13 I can no more, and my might faileth me. 14 He that is afflicted ought to have a good turn of his friend: but men have forsaken the fear of the almighty God.
8 VVho vvill cause my desire to come to passe, and that God may sende me my longing? 9 VVhich is, that hee shoulde breake mee in peeces, and that he shoulde stretch out his hande and cut mee off. 10 For then should I yet haue comfort: I shoulde reioyce in my griefe: let him not spare me, and I vvill not denie the vvordes of the holy one. 11 VVhat is my strength, that I shoulde bee able to indure? and vvhat is mine ende if I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones' or is my flesh of steele? 13 I can no more, and my might fayleth mee. 14 Hee that is afflicted ought to haue a good turne of his friende: but men haue forsaken the feare of the almightie God.
We have too go forward with the matter that I began already: which is, that Job tormenteth him self here, not for the misery which he endureth in his body, but because God held him as a poor condemned person, and because he dealeth as a judge with him, and is altogether against him. Ye see then wherefore Job is more grieved than for all §40the rest that he could suffer. That is to wit, because he feeleth Gods hand heavy upon him, as David speaketh in the two and thirty Psalm. And let us mark this well always. For otherwise we shall not know to what purpose he sayeth, I would I were dead, I would God would kill me, I would I were cut off from the world, for then should I have some ease, and I should be no more so sore pressed. And could there befall him any worse thing than death, specially than a death of Gods sending, wherein he should know that God would utterly