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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17693	A sermon of the famous and Godly learned man, master Iohn Caluine chiefe Minister and Pastour of Christs church at Geneua, conteining an exhortation to suffer persecution for followinge Iesus Christe and his Gospell, vpon this text following. Heb. 13. 13. Go ye out of the tents after Christe, bearing his rebuke. Translated out of French into english,; Quatre sermons avec exposition du Pseaume 87. English. Sermon 2. Selections	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Fielde, John, d. 1588.; I. P., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 4439.5; ESTC S116257	19,849	45

at the firste brunte without making vs to sustain any conflict but hee willeth that Iesus Christe doth rayn in the middest of his enemies so hee willeth that we being iugled in the middes of them should suffer their oppressions and violences vntill that he deliuer vs from the same I knowe wel that the flesh reigneth when we goe aboute to bring it to this poynte but it is requisit It is naturall for vs to flee the Crosse but vve must subdue that affection that the will of God haue the vpper hand If we feele any contradiction in vs we must not be amased thereat for this is a right naturall thing to flee the crosse neuerthelesse we may not goe anye further knowing that God doth accept our obedience so that we do subdue and mortifie our sences and desires for to make them subiect vnto him for the Apostles and prophets went not in such wise to death that they felt not in themselues Iohn 21. a certeine will to go back another man shal lead thee whether thou wouldest not sayde Lorde Iesus Christ to Peter The battell of a cristian man Likewise when such fear of death doth pricke vs it is a gaine for vs to heauenward or rather God winneth vs thereby or in the mean time let vs be assured that this is a Sacrifice praysing him that we doe resist and make force agaynst our affections for to bee altogether at his commaundement and this is the principal battell in the which God willeth that his people doe employ themselues which is that they endeuour to beate downe all that lifteth it selfe vp in their sences and spirits for to turne them oute of the way whiche he sheweth them and with all this the consolations be so great that it must needs be sayd that we are more then cowards when we do faint In old time an infinite number of people for the desire of a simple crowne of leaues they refused not any trauell trouble or payne for the same they counted it nothing to dye The crowne of immortality is prepared for such as do suffer notwithstanding there was none of them but did fyght at al aduenturs not knowing whether he should winne the price or not God hath sette before vs the Crowne of immortality by the which wee are made partakers of his glory he intendeth not that we shoulde fight at all aduenture 2. Tim. 2. but promiseth vs all the price that haue a desire thereof what occasion haue wee to come to heauen do we think that it is spokē in vain Math. 5. that if we dye with Iesus Christ wee shall liue also with him The triumph is prepared and wee flee the Combat as much as lyeth in vs. This is a doctrine repugnant to mans iudgement I do confesse the same and also when Iesus pronounceth that those which suffer for righteousnesse be blessed hee proponeth not a sentence whiche is easie to bee receiued of the worlde Contrariwise hee willeth vs to repute that for felicity which the world and our sences iudgeth vnhappy VVhom the vvorldlye counteth miserable are most happie It seemeth vs that we are miserable when God permitteth vs to bee destroyed by the Tyranny and cruelty of our enemies but the faulte is that we haue no regard at all to the promises of God the which do certefie vs that all shall be turned to our good we are discouraged to see the wicked to bee stronger and to hold their foote vpon our throte but such a confusion as saith Saint Paule ought rather to lift vs vp on high Note vvhy the euill do prosper and the good troubled for in as much we are giuen of our selues too much to muse vpon the thinges present God in permitting the good folke to bee euill intreated and the wicked to haue there will he teacheth vs by manifest tokens that one day will come in the which all that is now confused shal be reformed If the time seeme long vnto vs let vs runne to the remedie and not flatter our selues in our vice for it is certeine that we haue no fayth at all vnlesse we lift vp the eyes of our soules to the comming of our sauiour Iesus Christ our eie must be fixed vpon the comming of Christ Nowe God to the end he mighte leaue no meane vnattempted which might be fyt to driue vs forward he setteth before vs the promises on the one side and his threatnings on the other VVe must haue both the promises and threatnings of god before our eies in our troubles Math. 10. Luke 12. Do we think that the promises haue not power enogh in vs let vs ioin the threatnings for to strengthen them It is very true that wee must be so muche the more peruerse and froward not to adioyne more fayth then we doe to the promises of God when the Lorde Iesus sayth that he will auow and acknowledge vs before his father so that we confesse him before men and what is there that ought to let vs that we should not yeld him that confession that he requireth When men shall haue done their vttermost they can doe no worse but murther vs. And what shall eternall life be in comparson thereof I heape not vp here al the promises conteined in the scriptures whiche tende to one and the same end yet forasmuch as they are so oftē times repeted wee ought wholy to stay vppon them But if when the plague hang ouer our heades if three or foure bee not ynough one whole hundred will not serue to make vs to ouercome all aduersity and contrarye temptations But if God can drawe vs vnto himselfe thorough gentlenesse muste wee not bee more then beetle blockkish heades when his seuere threatnings can doe no more therein Iesus Christe citeth all those before his father Christ doeth sommon all them that denie his trueth Math 10. Math. 10. who shall through fear of bodily death deny the truth and sayth that both the body and soule shal be throwne to perdition And in another place he sayth that he will deny all those that shal deny him before men vnlesse that we be to much bereued of al vnderstanding these wordes ought to make our hair stand vpright vpon our heads Howsoeuer it be when we shall not be moued therewith as were meet there remaineth nothing for vs but an horrible confusion For in that VVhen neither the promises nor threatnings do moue confusion remaineth that all the wordes of Iesus Christ doe so little profite vs we are conuinced of too greate infidelitie We shal haue alledged too godly purpose that there is some pitty in vs forasmuch as our nature is so brittie For it sayde contrariwise that Moses looking vnto God through fayth was strengthened not to bowe vnder any tentation Heb. 11. An answere to the obiection of fraielnes of nature Wherefore when we are so soft and flexible yea that ther is no zeal constancie in vs it is a