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cause_n	woman_n	word_n	year_n	69	3	4.4000	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17643	A commentarie vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes, written in Latine by M. Iohn Caluin, and newely translated into Englishe by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessarie table for the better and more readie finding out of certayne principall matters conteyned in this worke; Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Rosdell, Christopher, b. 1553 or 4.	1583 (1583)	STC 4399; ESTC S107213	360,940	450

vppon the promise of God and to hope hee thought it sufficient that the Lorde had promised howsoeuer the thing was in it selfe incredible according to that was saide I thought good to turne it so that it might be referred vnto the time of Abraham For the meaning of Paule is that Abraham when many temptations woulde haue driuen him vnto desperation leaste hee shoulde fainte conuerted his minde vnto that was promised to him Thy seede shall bee like the starres of heauen and sandes of the Sea For purposely hee alleadged this testimonie but in parte that hee might stirre them to the reading of the scripture For the Apostles euery where in citing holy scripture haue a religious care to prouoke vs to the diligēt reading thereof 19 And hee not weake in the faith considered not his owne body whiche was nowe dead beeing almost an hundreth yeere olde neither the deadnesse of Saraes wombe 20 Neither did hee doubte of the promise of God through vnbeliefe but was strengthened in the faith gaue glory to God 21 Beeing full assured that hee which had promised was also able to do it 22 Therefore was it imputed to him for righteousnesse 19 And he not weake in faith If you had rather one of the negatiues being left out you may declare it thus and he not weake in faithe considered his owne bodie but this maketh nothing for the sense Nowe he sheweth more nearely what might haue hindered What thinges might haue hindered the faith of Abraham yea what might haue vtterly turned Abraham from receiuing the promise Seede was promised to him when by nature neither he was fit for generation nor Sara for conception Whatsoeuer hee coulde see in him selfe or about himselfe it was against the effect of the promise Therefor that he might giue place vnto the truth of God as though hee had forgot himselfe hee withdraweth his mind from those thinges were in his sight Yet you are not to vnderstand it as though hee had no respecte at all to his barraine or dead body Seeing the Scripture testifieth he reasomed thus with himself shall a childe be borne to a man that is an hundreth yere olde and shall Sara which is nienetie beare a childe But because that consideretion being laide apart he resigned his whole sense ouer to the Lorde the Apostle saith he considered not And surely it was an argument of greater constancie to drawe his cogitation from that thing whiche did voluntarie offer it self to his eyes then if no such thing had come into his minde And that the body of Abraham for age was past fruite before the blessing of the Lorde It may plainely be proued both heare and also out of the seuenteene and eighteene chapters of Genesis Gee 17. 18 So that the opinion of Augustine is in no wise to bee admitted who in a certaine place thinketh that the cause was onely in Sara Neither ought the absurditie of the obiection mooue vs which droue him vnto that resolution He thinketh it very ridiculous that Abraham at an hundreth yeeres shoulde be called barraine who sometime after had many children For thereby the Lord made his power more notable that hee which before was like a withered and drie poste when through the blessing of God he floorished he was not onely sufficient for the procreation of Isaac But as one restored vnto a florishing age he had strength afterward to beget others But some will say it is not besides the order of nature that a man sholde beget a childe at that age That I may graunt it is not a wonder yet it differeth little from a myracle Consider also with what labours molestations peregrinations extremities that good man was exercised all his life and then you must needes confesse hee was no more broken with age then he was worne and wasted with labours Lastly his body is not simply but by the way of comparison called barren or fruitlesse For it was not like that he which in the flower strength of age was vnfit for procreation shoulde then begin when he was voyd of strength Wheras he saith he was not weake in faith vnderstand it thus he did not shake or wauer as we are woont to doe in doubtfull things For there is a twofold weakenesse of faith one A twofold weakenesse of faith which by yeelding to temptations of aduersity doth make vs fall from the power of God another which ariseth verily of imperfection yet doth it not extinguishe fayth For the intellect is neuer so illuminated but there remayne many reliques of ignorance the mynd is neuer so stablished but there abydeth muche doubting The faithfull therefore haue a continuall conflicte with those vices of the flesh namely ignorance doubting in which conflict their faith is often times grieuously assaulted and put in hazard yet at the length it ouercommeth so that they may be called firme euen in infirmitie 20 Neyther did he doubt of the promise of God Although I follow not the olde interpreter and Erasmus yet my translation hath his reason For it seemeth the Apostle would say that Abraham examined not in the ballance of incredulity whether the Lord could performe that he promised To make inquisition of a thing is properly when we sift it with mistrust neither will we admit it before it be throughly examined where it appeareth credible Indeed hee demaunded howe it might come to passe Abraham asked how it might come to passe not because he doubted but because he woondered but that was an interrogation of one wondring as the Virgin Mary when she demaunded of the Angell howe that might come to passe which he shewed vnto her and such like The godly therfore whiles a message is brought vnto them of the works of God whose greatnesse exceedeth their capacity they burst foorth into admiration but from the admiration they passe straight wayes to the consideration of the power of God the wicked whiles they demaund they scoffe and ride and reiecte it as a fable As you may see in the Iewes whiles they aske Christ how he could giue his fleshe to be eaten Therefore Abraham is not reprehended for that he laughed and demaunded how a sonne shoulde be borne to a man of an hundreth and a woman of nienetie yeere olde because in his admiration he neuerthelesse gaue place to the power of the word of God On the contrarie the like laughter question is reproued in Sara because shee charged the promise of God with vanity If these thinges bee applyed to the present cause it shall appeare there was no other originall of Abrahams iustification then there is of the Gentiles That we may beleeue the promises of God wee must turne our eyes from our selues to consider the power truth of God The Iewes then are contumelious agaynst their father if they gainsaye the calling of the Gentiles as though it were absurd Let vs also remember howe all of vs are in the same predicament with