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A17647	A commentarie of M. Iohn Caluine vppon the Epistle to the Philippians wherein is set out the necessitie and profite of affliction vnto the faithfull, the benefite of God his word, the fruits, of vnitie and humilitie, free iustification by faith in Iesus Christ without our owne merites, the assurance, ioy, and contented mindes of the godlie, and their perseueraunce in godlinesse vnto the end. With many other comfortable and profitable pointes of religion. Translated out of Latine by W.B.; Commentarii in quatuor Pauli epistolas. English. Selections	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Becket, William, fl. 1584.	1584 (1584)	STC 4402; ESTC S107378	72,730	102

no trust in the flesh for vnder the name of flesh he comprehendeth whatsoeuer is outward in a man from whence glory is sought as it shall appeare out of the text or that I may speake more briefely he calleth fleshe whatsoeuer is without Christ wherein he doth not lightly gaule these peruerse followers of the lawe because not contented with Christ they flie vnto the glorie of others He put To reioyce and to haue trust for the same for thorough confidence he exalteth a man that he may also haue boldnesse to reioyce therefore they are things ioyned together 4 Although I also He speaketh not of the affection but he sheweth that he also hath occasion to reioice if that he woulde imitate the foolishnesse of others The sense therfore is thus my glory is placed in Christ but if I must néedes reioyce in the fleshe I want not matter whereof to reioyce And héereof we learne how their arrogancie is to be refuted that are proude without Christ If we also haue the same things wherein they exalt themselues let vs not suffer them by their foolish boasting to insult vpon Christ but let vs refuse our owne glory that they may vnderstand that it is not for enuie that we doo not estéeme yea rather that we willingly cast away those things which they make most accompt of Let this notwithstanding be alwaies a clause that all trust of the fleshe is vaine and ridiculous If any man hath whereof to trust in the fleshe more I. Not contented to make himselfe equall with any of them he doth preferre himselfe before them wherefore he can not be suspected in this cause as if he enuied their excellencie and that he extolleth Christ to humble that which was wanting in himselfe He saith therefore if it should come into a contention that he shall be more excellent than the others for they had nothing as we shall sée by and by which he had not in like manner common with them and in some things he did farre surpasse them He said improperly that he had trust who without trust was indued with carnall glorie wherewith others were puffed vp 5 Circumcised the eight day word for word it is the circumcision of the eight day but touching the sense there is no difference for it signifieth that according to the lawfull custome and according to the prescript of the lawe that hée was circumcised Touching that ordinarie circumcision it was had in great estimation and beside it was a token of their kindred whereof he addeth afterward For in strangers there was not the like reason for after they were become Proselites they were circumcised being yong men or men growne to perfection and sometimes also being old men He saith therefore that by kindred he is an Israelite He sheweth the tribe not in my iudgement that the tribe of Beniamin had more excellencie than the rest but to confirme the credite of hys kindred Hether also appertaine that whyche hée addeth agayne that hée is An Hebrewe of the Hebrewes for this was an old name wherewith Abraham is adorned by Moyses in Genesis 14 13. The summe therfore is that Paule from hys verie originall was borne of the séede of Iacob so that from thence he might reckon hys graundfathers and great graundfathers According to the lawe a Pharisee After that hée had disputed of the nobilitie of hys stocke hée descendeth now vnto peculiar giftes of hys person as they call them Commonly it is sufficiently knowne that the sect of the Pharises in opinion of holines and doctrine was famous aboue the rest of that sect he sheweth that hée was It is a common opinion that they were called Pharises of diuision but I rather allowe that which I heard sometyme of Capito a man of holie memorie that they had their name from hence because they boasted that they excelled in the gifte of interpreting the Scripture for Phares among the Hebrewes is Interpretation When others professed themselues to be learned these men had rather be called Pharises who were skilfull in the interpretation of olde writers And truly it is manifest that vnder the colour of antiquitie they corrupted the whole Scripture by their gloses yet because they kept still certayne interpretations deliuered by the hands of their fathers the greatest honor was gyuen vnto them But what meane thys clause According to the lawe for truely there is nothyng more contrarie to the lawe of God than sectes for there one truth of God is delyuered whyche is the bonde of vnitie Moreouer that all sectes sproong vp when Ionathas was high Priest Iosephus witnesseth in hys first booke of Antiquities and 13. Chapter Paule vseth improperlie the name of the lawe for the doctrine of religion because it was verie corrupt at that time as at thys daye is the Christianitie in the Papacie But because there were manie of the order of the Doctors lesse skilfull and exercised he maketh mention of hys owne zeale This was an haynous offence in Paule to persecute the Churche but because he had to doo with varlets who by mingling Christ with Moyses did pretend the zeale of the lawe He sheweth of the contrary side that he was so earnestly zealous for the lawe that for this cause he was a persecutor of the Church According to the righteousnes which is in the lawe It is no doubt but héere he vnderstandeth the whole righteousnes of the lawe for it is too barren to take it for the ceremonies only The sense therefore is more generall that he embraced integritie of life so much as could be required of a professor of the lawe Againe it is obiected that the righteousnes of the law is perfect before God for the summe is that men altogether should cleaue vnto God and what can be more desired vnto perfection I aunswere that Paule héere speaketh of righteousnes whiche mighte satisfie the common estimation of men for he separateth the lawe from Christ and what is the lawe without Christ but a dead letter that the matter may appeare more playnely I say there is a double righteousnes of the lawe one is spirituall namely the perfect loue of God and of our neighbours that is contained in doctrine and was neuer in the life of any man the other is liberall whiche appeareth in the sight of men when in the meane time hypocrisie reigneth in the heart and there is nothing before God but iniquitie So the lawe hath two respects the one of God and the other of men Paule therefore was holy in the iudgement of men and frée from all reprehension a rare praise truly and almost singular yet let vs consider how much he estéemed it 7 But the things that were aduantage vnto me the same I counted losse for Christ his sake 8 Yea I thinke all things but losse for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lorde for whome I haue made losse of all things and I thinke them to be dong that I might winne Christ 9 And