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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17698	The sermons of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the fifth booke of Moses called Deuteronomie faithfully gathered word for word as he preached them in open pulpet; together with a preface of the ministers of the Church of Geneua, and an admonishment made by the deacons there. Also there are annexed two profitable tables, the one containing the chiefe matters; the other the places of Scripture herein alledged. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding.; Sermons de M. Jehan Calvin sur les dix commandemens de la loy. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Ragueneau, Denys.	1583 (1583)	STC 4442; ESTC S107166	2,969,750	1,370

Lorde certifyeth vs of our saluation when he giueth vs his word wee must vnderstande that he will not suffer vs to stray as though wee knewe not whether wee shoulde turne on the right hand or on the left but that hee doth giue vs an infallible direction Seeing then that hee vouchsafeth to doe the office of a schoolemaster towardes vs let vs indeuour to profite thereby and let vs behaue our selues like good scholers towardes him and let none of vs in this case alleage I am no clarke For God hath not spoken to the greate doctours onely but his will was to deale foorth his worde in common both to great and small and to the most ignorant and hee hath so tempered it to their capacities as that all they which come to yeeld themselues teachable shall very well perceiue that our Lorde knew well what is meete for them and they shal be taught after such sort as he knoweth to be most conuenient for them Now if this be verified of the lawe much more reason is it that it shoulde at this day take effect in the time of the Gospel For we heare how it is saide by the Prophet Esay that in the kingdom of our Lorde Iesus Christ all shal bee taught of God 〈◊〉 54.13 〈◊〉 6.46 Marke the prophet Esay who knewe very well that God had giuen his law to al the Iewes and that it was a good and profitable instruction as well for the litle children as for the Elders But yet for as much as hee knewe wel that God would vtter foorth his grace more largely and sende a newe manner of light of vnderstanding when as Iesus Christ shoulde bee manifested vnto the world hee sayth that then all the children of the church should be taught of God And we see that in the Popedome where they turne away the people from reading the holy Scripture It is a wicked blasphemie when men suffer themselues to bee so blynded and vouchsafe not to suffer thēselues to be lead nor taught at Gods hands yea they haue proceeded to so diuelish blasphemie as to accuse the holy Scripture of too much darknes as a thing of too great depth wherein men ought not to be instructed for feare lest they should forthwith be possessed with many errors When they talk on that wise the iniurie tendeth to y e liuing God for they accuse him of vntrueth notwithstanding the protestation that he maketh by his Prophet Esaye Yea wee see howe all the whole Scripture is full of the like testimonies whereby it is auowed that the holy Scripture is profitable There needed no more but this one place of S. Paul where hee sayeth 〈◊〉 3.16 ● That all scripture is profitable to instruct to exhort to disprooue and to rebuke Hee sayeth not that it is profitable for three or foure rables of scuruie Monkes or shauelinges hee sayeth not so but he sayeth that it is profitable to make the man of God perfect And therefore let vs not dout but that when our Lorde deliuered his lawe hee knewe our capacitie and applyed himselfe in such wise therunto as hee teacheth vs according to our measure In so much that if wee bee teachable wee shall fynde that his doctrine was not deliuered vs in vayne but that hee meaneth to guyde vs thereby vnto saluation as it is in deede the true meane to attayne thereunto onely let vs suffer our selues to bee gouerned of our GOD and not behaue our selues stubbornely towardes him seeing hee offereth himselfe so freely vnto vs. And surely it ought to mooue vs very much when hee sayeth that God will haue all yea euen the litle children and all to bee hearers of this lawe For he telleth vs as Salomon also sayeth in his booke of the Preacher that men must not delaye to thinke vppon GOD 〈◊〉 12.1 till they beginne to droope and bee broken with age Yet notwithstanding wee see howe youth runneth astray and that there is nothing harder than to make young folke beleeue that they must be bridled in that they must imploy them selues whilest they be strong and lustie and that they must so much the more apply their wittes to be instructed in the word of God A man can not bring this to passe but the stronger lustier they be the more carelesse be they Now Moses sheweth in this place that as soone as the litle ones begin to discerne betweene good and euill they must learne to knowe what God created them and then what God hath shewed him selfe to be their father what God they ought to serue wherein they must put their trust And in very deede at the verie same time God did alreadie at y e eighth day giue a marke of his free adoption for before they knew either good or euil God enterteined them to be of his flock and the circumcision serued to seale the promise of saluation which he had made in saying I wil bee the GOD of thy seede Gen. 17.12 Seeing that children be thus entertained and God hath made it manifest that they bee of his church housholde people of the kingdome of heauen is it meete that when they be come to the age of vnderstanding they shoulde holde scorne of him which hath preuented them with so great goodnes Ought they not to know who is their creator and in likewise who hee is that hath vouchsafed to shewe himselfe to bee their father when as hee hath receyued them for his children And wee at this day haue so good reason as the Iewes had For as soone as our children be born they be caried to baptisme And there God doth shewe that hee hath already chosen them and that his will is that they should bee as of his housholde Therefore when an infant is thus declared to bee a member of our Lorde Iesus Christ before he doth vnderstand what y e grace of God or religion or any thing else is should he not when he commeth to age of vnderstanding indeuour to learne y t he was created of God who hauing created him after his owne image hath vouchsafed also to choose him to be of the number and company of his people and hath placed him in the body of our Lord Iesus Christ to the end he should be partaker of the inheritance of saluation Considering so many and so inestimable benefites receiued at Gods hand ought he not say I to giue himselfe wholie to him and to his seruice And if they doe it not doe they not shewe themselues too much vnthankfull in disappoynting the grace which was then giuen vnto them Also our Lord sheweth the zeale that ought to bee in them which bee taught by his word namely that so much as in them lyeth they must not suffer any despisers of religion to dwell amongest them but rather take paines to winne the poore ignoraunt sort and euery man reache his hand to him that goeth astray so as it may not bee long of vs that all