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A17717	Sermons of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the.X.Commandementes of the Lawe, geuen of God by Moses, otherwise called the Decalogue. Gathered word for word, presently at his sermons, when he preached on Deuteronomie, without adding vnto, or diminishing from them any thing afterward. Translated out of Frenche into English, by I.H.; Sermons sur les Dix commandemens. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Harmar, John, 1555?-1613.	1579 (1579)	STC 4452; ESTC S118603	228,662	264

in the way and that we lacke much of accomplishing that which God commaundeth and requireth of vs in the lawe And this one thing may occasion vs to humble our selues seeing that GOD shall alwayes finde in vs ouermuch to condemne vs for his seruice and that this spirituall rest of ours commeth not neere by many degrees to that which he commaundeth On the other side hauing this occasion of humbling bewailing our selues in true repentance let vs know this for the second point that we ought so much the more to bee moued and pricked forward to make our further profite when we may say How now It is true that God hath geuen me the grase that I desire to serue him But how do I behaue my selfe herein Alas I am yet farre wide farre off from it For when we perceiue this imperfection in vs ought we not to enforce our selues forwarde in the seruice of God So betesting the euill and wickednesse which is in vs let vs be pricked so much the more forwarde alwayes to profite in this rest and let euery one call himselfe dailie to account for his going forwarde herein Ye see then how GOD hauing geuen vs occasion to humble our selues vnder his hand all the time of our life sheweth vs that we ought to be inflamed hereby to correct the vices which are in vs and to mortifie more and more the lustes and desires of our fleshe Therefore let vs knowe that it is not sufficient that our olde man be in part crucified except we bee wholy buried with Iesus Christ as Saint Paule speaketh in this seuenth of the Romanes which we haue alreadie alledged Ye see then what we haue to note touching the seuenth day of which it is here spoken It remaineth now that we speake of the second point wherein we haue before in a worde said that the Sabbaoth day was a ciuil order to exercise the faithfull in the seruice of god For this day was appointed to assemble them together to heare the doctrine of the lawe preached to receiue the sacramentes to call on the name of god And touching these pointes it is common to vs with the auncient people of the Iewes For although the figure is ceased I meane that whereof Saint Paule speaketh in the Epistle to the Colossians yet notwithstanding this which apperteineth to ciuil order abideth stil and hath his vse And this policie what is it It is to assemble our selues together in the name of god True it is this ought to be done euerie day but for because of our infirmitie or rather slouthfulnesse it was expedient that one day should bee chosn out If we were so seruent in the loue of God as we should be it should not neede to ordeine one onely day in the weeke but all would both euening and morning assemble themselues together to the ende wee might be edisted more and more in the worde of god And in deede this exercise were more than needfull for vs considering that we are all so enclined vnto euill that we neede not any thing to leade vs on further in wickednesse and to loose the bridle more loose vnto vs It is needefull then that we assemble our selues together on euerie day in the name of god But what We see that with much a doe men will assemble themselues together on the Sunday and that many are to bee holden to this order by force and violence Hauing then such an infirmitie in vs let vs knowe that this order was not prescribed onely vnto the Iewes of obseruing one certeine day in the which they should come together but to vs also as common with them But yet herewithall wee haue to note that this is not all and that this were a verie bare and naked thing that our handes onely and our feete should rest and that nothing els should bee done What must we then doe Wee ought to applie this rest to a more high and excellent thing we ought to cease from those workes which might hinder the workes of GOD lette vs from calling on of his name stay vs from exercising of our selues in his holy woorde If wee employ the Sunday to make good cheare to sporte our selues to goe to games and pastimes shall GOD in this bee honoured Is not this a mockerie Is not this an vnhallowing of his name When our shoppe windowes are shutte in on the Sundaie when wee trauell not after the common order and fashion of men this is to the ende wee shoulde haue more libertie and leasure to attende on that which GOD commaundeth that is to wit to bee taught by his worde to assemble our selues together to make confession of our faith to call on his name to exercise our selues in the vse of the sacramentes Loe then to what purpose this policie ought to serue vs. But now let vs consider whether they which call themselues Christians acquite themselues in this pointe as were requisite A great parte of men thinke they haue the Sundaie the better to attende on their worldly affaires and they reserue to themselues this day as if they had no other to deliberate for the whole weeke to come Nowe if the bell shall ring to a Sermon they thinke they haue no other thing to doe but to thinke on their businesse and to make their accounte of this and of that Others glutte themselues by riotting and are shutte vp in their houses because they dare not shew a manifest contempt of their duetie in the open streetes So that the Sundaie is to them but a retreate to withdrawe themselues from the Churche and congregation of god By this one may see what affection wee haue towarde all Christianitie and the seruice of GOD seeing that by this which was geuen vs for an aide and helpe to drawe neerer vnto GOD wee take occasion to withdrawe our selues so much the further from him And whither wander wee Goe wee not so farre as to recule and flee backe wholie from him Is not this a diuelishe wickednesse of men And yet this is so common as it is pitie to beholde And would to God we stoode in neede to search for examples herein further off and that they were more rare to be founde But wee see how all is profaned and violated that the most parte are nothing carefull for the right vsage of this day which was ordeined to the end that we should bee retired from all worldlie cares and drawen backe from all other businesse to yelde vp ourselues wholie vnto god Moreouer let vs know that the Sunday is not ordeined for vs onely to come to the Sermon but to the end we employ the rest of the time to laude and praise god Note we this For although he nourish vs euerie day yet notwithstanding we meditate not sufficientlie of the benefites he bestoweth on vs to magnifie him in them True it is that this should be but a poore thing if wee should consider of the benefites of GOD but on the Sunday

But on the other dayes because we are occupied ouermuch about our worldlie affaires we are not so geuen to God as in that day which is altogether dedicated vnto this The Sunday the refore ought to serue vs for atowre to make vs mount on high to view the workes of God from a farre when we are neither hindered nor occupied with anything but that we may applie all our senses and our whole vnderstanding to reknowledge the gratious giftes and benefites which he hath bestowed on vs And when we shall well haue practised this on the Sunday namely shall haue deepely considered of the workes of God it is certeine that all the rest of our time we shall be geuen herevnto and that this meditation shall so fashion and polish vs that the Monday and all the rest of the weeke we shall be ledde to thanke our GOD when so before hand we shall haue premeditated on his workes to make our profite therein But when the Sunday is spent not onely in games and pastimes full of vanitie but in thinges which are altogether contrarie vnto God that men thinke they haue not celebrated the Sunday except God therein be by many and sundrie wayes offended When men I say vnhallowe in such sort this holie daie which God hath instituted to leade vs vnto himselfe is it any meruell if wee become brutishe and beastlie in our doinges all the rest of the weeke What is to bee done then Let vs all knowe that this is not sufficient that we come to the Sermon on the Sunday to receiue some good doctrine and to call vppon the name of GOD but wee must digest those thinges we heare and receiue and applie all our senses to the better vnderstanding of those benefites which God bestoweth on vs and that by this meane we bee so formed and fashioned to this thing that the Monday and all the rest of the weeke beside cost vs nothing to aspire and to come to our God and that we neede but to call to minde that whiche we shall haue learned before at good leasure when our mindes be as it were vnwrapped from all those thinges which hinder vs to recount the workes of god And this we haue to note touching the order wee are to obserue at this day which is not in keeping the ceremonie so streightlie as it was obserued vnder the lawe We haue no longer this figure But this rest day is to assemble vs together to the end that according to our infirmitie we bee better exercised to applie our selues to the seruice of God and to haue this day wholie consecrated vnto him to the ende we be drawen altogether from the world and that this may serue vs the better for the rest of our time as we haue saide And withall we must note that this is not enough that euerie one in particular and alone thinke on God and call to minde his woorkes on the Sunday but we must meete together one certeine day to make publike confession of our faith It is true that this ought to bee done euerie day as we haue said but because of the rawnesse and slouth of men it is behouefull to haue one speciall day which may wholie be dedicated and appointed to this vse I confesse well that we are not bound to the seuenth day as indeed we obserue not the day which was commandes the Iewes for this was the Saturday but to shew the libertie of Christians the day hath bene chaunged to the Sunday forasmuch as Iesus Christ in his resurrection hath deliuered vs from the bondage of the lawe hath cancelled the bond therof This was the cause why this chaunge hath bene made in the day But yet wee ought to obserue this order of policie to haue some day in the weeke be it one or be it two for this is left in the choice and libertie of Christians But that the whole people may bee assembled it is conuenient that one certeine day bee ordeined to receiue the Sacramentes together in common to haue the inuocation of the name of God and to shew an vnitie and concord in faith and religion It sufficeth not then that euerie one withdrawe himselfe into his owne house either to reade the holy scripture or to pray vnto God but it behoueth wee come into the companie of the faithfull and there declare the concorde and agreement we haue with the whole bodie of the Church and celebrate in such wise this order as the Lorde hath commaunded But what We may see here the vnhallowing of the seruice of god For as I haue alreadie touched are there not many which will shewe them selues herein despitefull vnto God and that will be exempted from the common lawe and order True it is that they will happilie come fiue or sixe times in the yeare to the sermon But what to doe Euen to make a mockerie of God and of all his doctrine These are indeed in the number of those hogges which came to defile the temple of God and deserued rather to bee in stables and better it were they held them selues in their stinking dennes to speake briefly it were better that such knaues were altogegether cut off from the Church of God than to shewe them selues in the companie of the faithfull But yet how many times come they among them The bell shall ring long enough before a man may espie them in any place So then wee ought with more diligence to take heede to our selues and quicken vp our selues to make such a confession of our faith that God may bee honored with one common accord among vs Moreouer wee must abolish all superstitions For wee see how among Papists men thinke to serue God by slouth and idlenes This is not the manner after which we ought to celebrate the Sabbaoth day but to applie it to his right and lawefull vse wee must knowe as we haue aboue said that our Lord requireth nothing else but that this day bee employed to heare his word to make our prayers in common to make confession of our faith and to vse the Sacramentes See wherevnto wee are called And yet wee see howe all hath bene corrupted brought to vtter confusion in Poperie for as they inuented dayes to honour their hee and shee Santes and haue forged to them selues idols so haue they thought they ought to serue them in all idlenesse Now seeing the world is so corrupted we ought so much the better to note this declaration of the Sabbaoth day as is here touched by Moses And withall let vs knowe to what end our Lord hath commaunded the auncient people to haue one day in the weeke to rest themselues And at this day vnderstanding how this outward ceremonie is abolished by the comming of Christ let vs geue our selues to the spirituall rest that is to dedicate our selues wholie vnto God renouncing our owne desires and affections and further let vs reteine the exteriour policie as farre as it apperteineth vnto vs namelie to

threate here made as we see So it is not sufficient not to haue pronounced expresselie by God but when one sweareth by his faith or taketh any cōfirmation from that which hath any signe of the maiestie of God his name is vnhallowed in this thing What shall wee say then of them whiche vse false othes to disguise their purposes which sweare rashlie euen to sport them selues with othes yea to despite God by their execrable blasphemies in so much that he hath neither flesh nor bloud nor nothing else which they spare Are these onely holden faultie for abusing the name of God No but because they vse him to the greatest and most execrable reproch that they may doe Beholde our Lorde Iesus Christ which made himselfe of no reputation for a time as Saint Paule speaketh who beeing the founteine of all life became mortall man hauing superioritie dominion ouer the Angels of Heauen tooke the forme of a seruant euen to shedde his bloud for our redemption and in the end to suffer the curse that was due vnto vs And nowe for a recompense of all this hee must at this day bee rent and torne in peeces of the carion and stinking mouthes of them whiche name them selues Christians For when they sweare by his bloud and by his death and by his woundes and by this and by that is not this as much as in them lieth to crucifie the sonne of GOD and to teare him as it were in pieces And are not these altogether worthie to bee cut off from God yea from the worlde and not to bee numbered in the band and companie of creatures Must Iesus Christ for abasing and humbling himselfe for vs haue such a reward at our handes God vpbraideth the people of Israel in this sorte O my people what haue I done vnto thee I haue brought thee out of Egypt I haue conducted thee by the desert I haue nourished thee in all gentlenesse and sweetenesse I haue planted thee as in my heritage that thou shouldest haue beene as a vine whiche should haue borne mee good fruite I bestowed all labour in keeping and fencing thee and must thou now bee turned into bitternesse vnto mee and bring foorth sowre fruite to strangle and to choke me Nowe the same apperteineth also at this day vnto vs For when the sonne of GOD whiche is appointed Iudge of the world shall come in the last day he may say vnto vs What meaneth this You haue borne my name to bee called Christians you haue bene baptised in witnesse and testimonie that I was your redeemer I haue drawen you foorth of the deepe dongeon wherein you were plunged I haue deliuered you from euerlasting death by the cruell death whiche I suffered and for this cause I beecame man I sbmitted my selfe to the malediction of GOD my Father to the end you might bee blessed by my grace and by my meane And beholde the rewarde you haue rendered mee I haue bene rent in pieces of you I haue beene as a ●easting stocke the death whiche I haue snffered hath beene had in derision and mockerie my bloude whiche is the washing of your soules was as it were trampled vnder your feete briefly you haue taken all occasion to blaspheme and to raile on mee as if I had bene a wretched and miserable creature When When this shal be rebukefullie told vs of our souereigne Iudge will not this be to thunder on vs and to throw vs downe to the bottomles pit of hell And yet notwithstanding there are verie fewe of vs which deeplie consider of this For if superfluous othes were at this day had in such greate horrour and detestation as they should bee men would not yeald vnto them selues any time hereafter such an outragious boldnesse and libertie of swearing and forswearing As for blasphemies see wee not how common and rife they are And in the meane time wee wil be verie zealous for our owne honour and reputation when the name of God is so troden vnder feete amongest vs If one speake any thing reprochfullie of ones father he will make a greate quarell of it or enter some action of slaunder yea many will reuenge them selues by their owne handes and by all meanes they may on euerie side and it seemeth to them that they haue an honest excuse to take vppon them the defence of their fathers Beholde our souereigne father shall susteine wrong and iniurie beholde in like manner our Lorde Iesus Christ who not without cause is named The Lord of glorie before whom euerie knee ought to bow as Saint Paule speaketh to the Philippians loe he I say shal be mocked than whiche despite none could bee wrought him greater except a man would spitte in his face and yet notwithstanding they whiche name them selues Christians whiche make a countenaunce of procuring and mainteining his honour will not bee moued any whitte therewith nay they them selues will bee the men whiche will blaspheme him in most execrable manner But for all this as I haue said our Lorde will not cease to mainteine his owne honour as he himselfe speaketh when he seeth that men are so wicked and profane so to violate his maiestie as much as lieth in them For he maketh a solemne othe that he will wreake his vengeaunce vppon them for this wickednesse I am the Lorde saith hee this is my name and my glorie I will not geue to an other neither my praise to grauen images Now as he will not that his honour bee transferred to idols so is it certeine it extendeth it selfe further namelie that if men shall falsly abuse his holy name they shall perceiue in what price it was vnto him And therefore let vs not waite vntill this bee accomplished vppon vs but let vs learne to beare such reuerence vnto our God and to him that hath all souereigne maiestie that is to our Lord Iesus Christ that we be throughlie instructed to sweare in such sorte that this be alwayes to confirme that it is he by whome we are that he is our Father our Creatour our Iudge Thus ye se in effect what we haue to gather of this place Now here is withall anuexed a threatening whereby we are to vnderstand the blockishnes of men how Sathan hath as it were bewitched them in such sorte that they conceiue not the wrath and anger of God when it is set before them I will not hold him guiltlesse which shall take my name in vaine Loe God who speaketh I pray you ought not all the haires of the heades of them stand on end which blaspheme God so wickedly and villainously as I haue saide When one sweareth lightelie by his faith behold God who is armed and saith For as much as thou hast not honored mee thou shalt geue an account for such trecherie God can not beare with vs for a simple lie if one periure him selfe this is much worse if an other blaspheme herein is the extremitie and furthest