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A17722	Thirteene sermons of Maister Iohn Caluine, entreating of the free election of God in Iacob, and of reprobation in Esau A treatise wherin euery Christian may see the excellent benefites of God towardes his children, and his maruelous iudgements towards the reprobate, firste published in the French toung, & now translated into English, by Iohn Fielde, for the comfort of all Christians.; Treze sermons de l'election gratuite de Dieu en Jacob et de la rejection en Esau. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Fielde, John, d. 1588.	1579 (1579)	STC 4457; ESTC S107264	201,134	366

how to distinguish betwene the outward preaching which is done by the mouth of men the secret calling of God whereby he toucheth the hartes within Now when it is cōmaunded in the last of Marke to preach the Gospell too all this importeth not that God therfore worketh in all by the power of his spirit and when it is said in the second Chapter of the first too Timothie that God would all men to be saued the solution is added by and by that come too the knowledge of his trueth Wherefore then is it that he him selfe would not at that present time that the gospel should be preached to all so farre of is it that he hath enlightened all the world in the faith It is maruelous that this shameles forhead is not ashamed too alledge for him self the 10. to the Romanes where the text expressely setteth forth that all beleeue not the Gospel because that Isay saith that the arme of the Lord is not reuealed to all Also the 6. chap. of S. Iohn where Iesus Christe expressely pronounceth that all that are giuen him of his father come vnto him And touching that that he saith that all shal be taught of God it is a speciall promise made to the Church as also the Lord Iesus Christ was a faithfull expositour therof saying He therefore that hath heard and learned of my father shall come vnto me Whereby he sheweth that all are not inwardly called According as a little after also hee confirmeth the same Therefore I haue said vnto you that none can come vnto mee vnlesse it be giuen him from God my father Notwithstanding this Rustick imagineth he hath well escaped hauing spoken a word of predestinatiō without making any semblance of the text so expressely set foorth wher it is said that God wil haue mercie vpon him on whō he wil haue mercy that our saluation is of the same mercy not of the willer nor of the runner and that before the two twinne● were borne whē they had neither done good nor euill to the end the purpose of his electiō might stād sure he had chosen the one reiected the other Also whē we beleue that this proceedeth of that that God hath chosen vs Therevpon it foloweth that the rest of the world remaineth blinde But because it would be to long to alledge all consider those places whiche are gathered in a little booke that our brother master Beza hath made thereof and you shal be fully satisfied therein To shew that the hardening of Pharao proceded not of God he alledgeth that which is said in the third and fourth of Exod. I haue commanded thee to let my people depart and thou wouldest not But it foloweth not therevpon that God had not ordeyned Pharao to be glorified in his obstinacie hardnes as he protesteth Exodus 9. chapter And Saint Paule alledgeth it in this sense in the 9. chapter to the Romaines This therefore is sottishly concluded of this impudent fellowe that our will is the first and chiefe cause of euill I confesse in deede that it is the neere cause and the true roote of our condemnation But too the ende a man may graunt him hee alledgeth the authoritie of Amerbachius who is a lawier and as skilfull a Diuine as a Poticarie is a good butcher Concerning Melancthon if this Rustike rested not him selfe vppon him as hee protesteth but vppon the Gospell howe prooueth hee by the Gospel that God hath not ordeyned of his creatures Touching that hee imputeth vnto vs that we put a fatall necessitie as the Stoikes doo it is a verie vilanous slaunder For the Stoikes they made god him selfe subiect to such necessities making a net of obscure causes wherein God was entangled But wee set the Lorde and maister in full libertie attributing the soueraigne Empire too his prouidence too dispose of all things Concerning that this Clowne babbleth of Free will it is sufficiently reiected throughout the whole Scripture For Freedome and bondage are contraries Nowe that wee are the seruauntes yea the slaues of sinne there needeth not that we aledge one place alone seeing the whole Scripture are full thereof Notwithstanding too gyue some colour too his errour hee alledgeth that Ierusalem woulde not receyue the grace of God yea as though this prooued Free will too choose good or euill You shall finde throughout all my bookes howe I haue taught that wee must not seeke the cause of our perdition any where else but in our selues and in our peruerse will. But it follovveth not that it is in vs too chaunge our will which is altogither giuen too euill You shall also finde that I haue taught that which this troublecoast setteth down here to put out the whole light to witte that our wil is the cause or meane to come to saluation Wherfote it nedeth not to alledge that Abraham beleued God that it was imputed vnto him for rightuousnes For in very trueth it must needes bee that a man must accept the grace of god But the question is of knowing what is the first cause And this is the power of the holy ghost thorow which we are drawē to the obedience of god according as he hath chosen and adopted vs for his children before the foūdation of the world Nowe in this behalfe this vile dogge sheweth sufficiently ynough that he makes no accōpt of the holy scripture the which asmuch as lies in him he would abolish or tread vnder his feete For in going about to declare how Abrahā was saued by his wil he saith that this was of that wil which God had put in man creating him after his owne image Whereby he vtterly abolisheth the whole grace of the holy ghost and goeth beyonde not only the Papistes but also some of the Paynims in this impietie For the Papistes keepe such a measure in magnifying their Freewill that they confesse being corrupted and depraued wee can do nothing if God through his spirit supernaturall grace do not helpe driue and direct vs But concerning the holy scripture it sheweth vs that we shal alwaies be rebelles against God vntil that he shal haue chaunged renewed vs And loe why Moyses said to the people Deutero 29. that God had not yet giuen them an vnderstanding hart and seeing eyes And therfore to the ende hee might be obeied he saith that he would giue them a newe heart taking away that stonie heart Ieremie in the 31 Ezechiel in the 11. 37 S. Paule in the 2. to the Philipp that God giueth both too wil to performe And in the first of S. Iohn it is said that they which beleeue are not of the wil of flesh nor blood but renewed of god And S. Luke speaking of the woman sheweth wel how all are drawen vnto faith to wit that God openeth the heart to the end his word may be vnderstoode Now it is certaine that these things are not spokē of the cōmon order of nature And yet this

with some puffe wee bee not mooued and troubled and that our thoughts doe not wander that we do not conceiue many thinges at randon and that wee haue not many disputes bothe on the one side and on the other to be shorte that wee be not tossed as if there were some kinde of tempest whirlewind which carryed vs about We can not haue our spirites altogither quiet nor so well guyded that they shall haue no troubles And this is declared vnto vs in Rebecca when shee sayeth If it bee so to what end I or why doe I liue She desireth death and yet shee is the mother of the faithfull Shee representeth the Church Now if this were in her that bare in her belly the hope of the saluation of the worlde what shal be in vs So considering that we haue our mindes so ready to conceiue follyes and vanities and moreouer so ready also to cast vs off the hinges in the end so subiect to make vs storme against God so much the rather it standeth vs in hande to search out the remedy Now that is heere giuen vs in Rebecca For she fodes not her selfe in her sadnesse shee byteth not vpon the brydle as many doe who sticke there which seeke to haue no meane wherein to content themselues nor to make them quiet setled but they wander this way and that way and alwayes adde fantasies to fantasies plunge them selues so deepe in their imaginations that the Deuill afterwards possesseth them and driueth them by all violence and fury against god Rebecca doth not so But when she felt that this was an intolerable greefe vnto her she withdraweth her self vnto God she enquireth of him and answere was giuen vnto her by and by She had therfore whervpon to rest her selfe when she knewe that so was the good pleasure of GOD and when shee sawe what hee demaundeth and that one of her owne children should bee cut off from the Church and the other reserued shee knowing this it behoueth that she rest there and submit her selfe thervnto the which thing she doth For she striueth not against god Likewise we read not that at any time after she murmured but we see that she hearkened vnto God and brought forth children afterwards and alwayes she rested her selfe in that which had bene said vnto her and set her minde and affection vpon Iacob And why so Because she knewe that hee was ordained of God to be the blessed seed which she had hoped for so as she behaued her self more manfully in this respect then Isaack her husband Now this is to shew vs that when wee are in any trouble wee must straightway haue our recourse to god For our spirits are not able enough too knowe these hidden things yea wee see that in the moste easyest things in the world as seemeth vnto vs we shal be many times rauished astonished And what shal it be then when the question shal be of the iudgements of God which are incomprehensible and which are of so high and profounde matter that the holy Ghoste teacheth vs in steade of curious searching after thē that we must adore them shall men presume of their reason of that they shall builde vpon their good lyking and shall they examine all after their owne fantasie and opinion It is certain that such presumption shall not remaine vnpunished it is seene also For wherfore is it that so many dogges at this day spue out their blasphemies against this doctrine of predestination It is because they vouchsafe not to enquire at the mouth of God but they wil giue sentence as their braine wil beare forsooth as though we were fit and sufficient So then let vs followe the example of Rebecca that is to say when all these questlons shall come before our eyes and that we shall be tormented on euery side in thinking And how is it possible that the moste parte of the world shall perish and the rest be saued Howe commeth it to passe that one is elected and another reiected Howe is it that the greateste number goe to destruction and that there is but an handfull of people which God reserueth to him selfe When we shall bee thus tormented let vs haue recourse vnto God that is to say let vs hearken to that which is shewed vs in the holy Scripture let vs pray God that hee will open our eares and our eyes to the ende we may vnderstand his will. And farther haue wee this It behoueth vs altogither to rest therein and to bee quiet For there is no cause of disputing any farther when God hath once pronounced his sentence To be short this is dayly to shewe vs that wee can not euer dispose our selues to receiue the instruction of the holy Scripture and to seeke all our wisedome there vnlesse we haue this modestie and humilitie in vs not to desire to vnderstand or knowe any thinge but that which is contayned therein Wee neede not any reuelation from heauen at this day as Rebecca had It is very true that some coniectured that she went vnto some Prophet but they were thin sowen in the worlde then For a man may easily perceiue that Melchezedech was dead and that there was not any moe then Abraham and Isaack This then is a Dreame to thinke that shee went to the schooles of the Prophets but she had a reuelation as our text heere sheweth And our condition at this day is not altogither like and neither haue we also such neede thereof For then there was neither the Lawe nor the Gospel At this day wee haue all perfection of doctrine For God in olde time hath spoken vnto our Fathers and not in secrete nor in obscuritie as sayeth Esaie the Prophet And this was not in vaine that hee sayde that men should seeke him as Moyses protesteth Beholde the way walke in the same I haue sette before you this day the waye of saluation and Heauen and Earth are witnesses vnto mee that I haue declared vnto you what you muste doe to come vnto euerlasting life And afterwardes although God haue his secretes saith he in an other place yet notwithstanding this that is to say the summe of the lawe is for you and for your children to the ende that you shoulde bee taught in the way of saluation But besides this wee haue yet the Gospel wherein our Lord Iesus Christ hath shined vnto vs in all fulnesse For he is that sonne of righteousnesse Seeing therefore wee haue so sufficient testimonyes shall we demaunde that Angels come downe from Heauen and that God will yet open vnto vs that is hidden from vs But let vs as I haue already said content our selues with the holy Scripture And when there is any cause of inquiring after God if we will haue him for our maister let vs come to the holy Scripture let vs remember that which Moyses saith Thou shalt not say Who is he that shall ascend aboue the Cloudes Who is he

putteth it in the plural number and contenteth not himselfe to say Loe a Largesse but he saith beholde the Largesses which God hath bestowed vpon vs Wee yet see more plainely that which I haue touched before That is when Isaack was in so greate distresse that hee had no water to drinke that men were so cruell vnto him that hee could not drinke of the water which he had digged by his owne labour and by the handes of his familie that hee remitteth this matter to GOD who is the iuste Iudge But contrarywise when God had compassion vppon him and that men came no more to torment him and that hee had water to drinke for him selfe and for all his company Oh well saith hee This is God that hath bestowed this vpon me He sayth not ô in the end yet I haue obtained my purpose These wicked ones haue let me alone at the length nowe let vs take our ease Hee speaketh not so simply as a prophane man would haue doone but he would haue a memoryall of thanks giuing vnto God as he had set vp memorialls of his complaint to drawe the Lord to haue mercy vpon him Likewise his minde is now that this benefite of God should bee as it were ingrauen there and that men should speake of it not onely for three dayes but after his death and that they should acknowledge that Well a signe of the fauour that God had shewed him And let vs note this circumstance For hee ceaseth not to giue GOD thankes with a quiet hearte though hee hadde beene a longe time afflicted When wee haue endured long the like troubles the graces of God are wont to bee darkened by that feeling of our euill and if GOD suffer vs to languishe for a time although afterwards hee reach out his hand vnto vs yet we thinke it is not from him but we attribute this to fortune But Isaack did not so but although he was driuen out and that he had indured this for a long time yet so soone as God had giuen him release he blesseth his name and sayth God hath inlarged me Loe sayth he the largesses or bounties of god which I beholde in this Well But nowe in the ende we haue to note the patience of Isaack when we preach now a dayes of patience hardly can we get this poynt that if wee haue to indure neuer so little we be not by and by hot angry and when it seemeth that we are very patient yet there wil alwayes be some grudging vnlesse God euen at the first push comfort vs in the meane season what suffer we Surely in a manner nothing If we endure but a fillip ô it is so hard as nothing can bee harder and moreouer if men goe on to doe vs wrong ô we suffer too much But we are farre of from this lenitie and softnesse which is here shewed vs in our father Isaack Wee wil say I cannot beare it If any man wronge vs but the value of three halfpence or of some small portion of our good ô I can not indure it this is too much Yea but Isaack striued for water I say striued hee tooke not a sword to fight but he suffred wrong although he had digged the welles and his father had purchased them with his owne proper good and that the Kinge had made him a graunte and that he had digged them againe and taken a greate deale of trauell to haue water to drinke notwithstanding all this we see his patience And so when God shall afflict vs and shal loose the bridle to the wicked that wee shal be pilled polled of them let vs yet knowe that we are not come to that extremitie not to haue a drop of water and to haue those elements taken from vs which God would haue common amongst men For euery man will haue his portion aparte bothe of corne and of wine of flesh and such like thinges and of moueable and possessions euery one will haue his owne but as for water it is an Element which GOD hath ordayned for all men When there are Riuers Welles and fountaines in any high way why shoulde they be taken away from those that are the creatures of God But howsoeuer it bee yet it fell out that our fathers were brought to such extremitie And this as I haue already touched serueth to this purpose that wee should learne to be patient not onely to suffer some one little iniurie or twoo or three but that in all respectes we shoulde bee so meeke and softe natured that if it were in a matter of life and death as they say we put our hope in God that he wil shew himself pitiful towards vs And therefore let vs not double our euil let vs not make of one deuil two when the wicked and vngodly persecute vs vniustly but let vs labour to soften their heartes and to asswage the malice which they vse against vs If we doe so it is certaine that howsoeuer we be for a time in extreme anguish yet in the ende God will so inlarge vs that wee shall haue good cause to blesse his holye name with full mouth their dwelling they must bee flitting and haue no resting place vnlesse they bee lodged from day to day as it were by the hand of GOD and in the meane season that they prepare thēselues to wāder go from place to place after the exāple of their fathers who learned by experience not too haue their inheritance here beneath vpon earth confessed them selues to be Pilgrimes as we shall see heereafter that Iacob answeared Pharao In the meane time we may see also the malice of all those neere neighbours thereaboutes For the Welles especially which Abraham had bought were taken from him after his death to the ende that his successours and Children might haue no vse of them But it is said that Isaack yet digged a Well there for he could not be without water both for the familie he had which was greate as for his Cattel but he wente very farre to seeke water vntill GOD restored him too that which was wrongfully taken from him He dwelleth therfore in Beer-scheba for a time without water vnlesse hee borrowe or buye it but afterwardes hee findeth his Well againe and so is at some better ease then before and God suffereth them not that would as it were haue made them to dye of thirst to vse their malice and to come to their purpose But howsoeuer it be God hearde him not at the first dashe Wee haue then to learne heere that which was touched yesterday that is that wee learne to endure need yea in the need of water that we thinke it not straunge which our fathers haue tryed For it is no reason that wee should bee more priuiledged then they And if God spare vs that we acknowledge his goodnes in this point and if he afflict vs in any other sort that wee be so much the more framed to patiēce But yet it is