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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17684	A little booke of Iohn Caluines concernynge offences whereby at this daye diuers are feared, and many also quight withdrawen from the pure doctrine of the Gospell, a woorke very needefull and profitable. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by Arthur Goldinge.; De scandalis. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1567 (1567)	STC 4434; ESTC S107218	91,712	246

amonge the people for the holy Ghoste teacheth that where preachinge fayleth the people goe to hauocke and experience sheweth that one of these twoo mischieues ensueth wheÌ„ preachynge is stayed to wete either no Religion at all wherof procÃ©edeth Atheisme and Epicuresme or els euery man to haue a Religion by him selfe which is the very Originall cause of all Heresie and Scisme in the Church of Christ. It is the Deuilles policie to haue preachinge set apart to the ende that he may haue a time to scatter his darnell cockle in y e Lordes fielde wherein if he be not spÃ©edely preuented it is to be feared that the Deuill which hath bene cast out will returne againe to his old possession and findinge it vacante readie trimmed for him settle him selfe and seuen other Deuilles with him worse then he is so it fall out with vs as with the froward generatioÌ„ whose ende was worse then the beginnynge Which extrÃ©eme miserie the Lord vouchsafe to preuent with his mercie that we our posteritie may coÌ„tinewe in y e light of his truth that the same may continewe with vs to the ende At Barwicke the firste of October Anno 1566. Your good Lordshippes most humble to commaunde Arthur Goldinge To Laurence Normandie a man endewed with excellent gyftes Iohn Caluin sendeth grÃ©etinge WHereas for many considerations I had vowed some parte of my trauels vnto you in my hart I haue dÃ©emed this little woorke woorthie to be chosen before others bicause your example may auaile and that not smally to bringe in credite the doctrine whiche it conteineth For since the time that forsakynge your countrie willingly you haue come hither as a baÌ„nished man we two can best beare witnesse with how many and how violeÌ„t practises of SathaÌ„ you haue bene assaulted yet there are other also that knowe of it The fourth moneth after your departinge came tidinges of your Fathers death It could not be but that you muste nÃ©edes thinke that which malicious persones letted not to speake how the cause of his death might be ascribed to thought to the entent that all the blame might be laide vppon your necke Anon after followed a moste sharpe wounde that your wife beyng suche a woman as euery good man would wishe him selfe the like was takeÌ„ away in the chiefe flowre of her age Here also it coulde not otherwise be but that diuers teÌ„ptatioÌ„s perced your minde beynge not a man of a blockishe nature Now sounded in your eares the slauÌ„ders of euill men that she was drawen out of her natiue soyle in an vnluckie hower to leaue her wretched life almoste in an other worlde But this touched you nerer at the hart that they should haue any colour bicause they reported that your purpose was cursed of the Lorde with a sorowfull issue I omit the other innumerable prickinges which you could not but fÃ©ele inwardly For seynge widowhoode is a grieuous euill it was to excÃ©edinge a griefe to you to be depriued of suche a coÌ„panion of your life And to encreace the heape of your sorrowes laste of all came also the buriall of your little daughter In the meane while the Deuill powred out of other places all the mischiefe he could deuise to the enteÌ„t that ouerwhelminge your wounded hart he might dispatch you out of haÌ„de Finally you were driueÌ„ to swallow vp more trouble within one halfe yÃ©ere than many that are coÌ„mended for the haultnesse of their courages haue suffered all their liues longe That was a heape of stumblingblockes cast against you by the sutteltie of SathaÌ„ euen at your firste settinge foorth in your race to haue compelled you to pull backe your foote againe But you puttyng your affiance in the inuincible power of Gods spirite gaue ensample to all others that there is no let so dÃ©epe difficulte which by the same ayde may not be waded out of And therewithal you haue tried with what armour the Lorde is wonte to furnishe his seruantes as often as he calleth them to the encounter I remember wheÌ„ I first tolde you your Father was dead and that I alledged the example of Abraham whome the men of his age mighte call the murtherer of his Father in that Thare followinge him when he went froÌ„ home miscaried by the waye you made me answeare by and by that for asmuche as God did bothe beare witnesse to your doyng and also allowed it you passed nothinge for the slaunders of the wicked and that nothinge grieued you but that your Father bearynge you companie in your iourney had not made you like vnto Abraham For you were neither so nice nor so prowde that you would eyther refuse to be Abrahams companion or that you would shunne that slaunder whiche God setteth out with great commendation Howbeit your wife did of her selfe wonderfully asswage and mitigate the sorrowe of her death before she departed from vs. For there coulde no apter medicine haue bene wisshed than those heroicall woordes of hers whiche she vttered vpon her death bedde when takinge me by the hande she thanked God who had brought her on his haÌ„de in to such a place where she might die with a quiet coÌ„scieÌ„ce when bewailyng in her harte the state of her former life she cried out that she was double happie in that beynge lately drawen out of the cursed iayle of Babilon she should now also depart out of the miserable pryson of the bodie when out of the liuely sence of her conscience disputinge of her owne sinnes of the gilte of eternall death and of the dreadfull iudgement of God not womanlike she extolled highly the grace of Christ with like humblenesse and affiance embraced it as a holly Anchor I doo so well remember her howe she vttered these woordes not onely plainely and distinctly but also with an vnaccustomed earnestnesse euen at her last drawinge on that me thinkes I sÃ©e her yet still Therfore when I sawe you on the contrary part nobly striuyng to subdue the heauinesse of your harte I marueled the lesse that a man shoulde be stoute in sorrowe beynge helped with so many and so goodly remedies I will not tarrie in rehearcinge of others This I saye onely when the Deuill had framed a buisie Labyrinth of an vnmeasurable heape of stumblingblockes for you you ouercame them all in such sorte that you maye not onely be a mÃ©ete admonissher counseller vnto others but also that such as are somewhat weakeharted beynge encouraged by your example may woorthely take a new stoutenesse vnto them YÃ©e may sÃ©e that the moderatenesse of an vpright minde is a very defeÌ„sible towre wherof you haue giuen a singular proofe partely in other thinges but specially herein in asmuch as hauing lefte in your countrie thinges whiche leade some men to ambition and holde other some faste with their enticementes you are touched with no desire at all of them so that it may appeare you beare the want of them with as quiet and vpright a minde as you

graunt it surely how be it to desire to be priuiledged from that incoÌ„moditie whereunto we sÃ©e the moste holy name of Christe his Gospell subiect that is vtterly against all reason Therfore they that at this daye alledge that OffeÌ„ces are the cause why they dare not giue their coÌ„sent to the pure doctrine of the Gospell which we professe but are rather horribly afrayde to come at it I woulde warne all such to take hÃ©ede that in stÃ©ede of Christe they set not theÌ„ selues vp an Idoll For this must be taken for a sure grounde that if we will shunne all Offences we must therewithall also vtterly renounce Christe who if he were not the stone of Offence were not the trewe Christe Howbeit I know there be fower sortes of men whome Offences withholde from Christe or at least whiche vnder this colour are enemies to y e Gospell The feare of Offences holdeth many backe conceyued of a certaine naturall modestie in so much that they dare not ones take a taste of the Gospell Other some beynge more slouthful and vnapt to be taught doo hinder them selues rather by dulnesse than by wilfulnes And there are very many who beyng sotted with pryde the vaine opinion of that wisedome which they are farre from are to themselues an occasion of Offence through their owne arrogancie There are also which malitiously and of set purpose doo gather togither all Offences and inuent many newe of theyr owne braynes and that not so muche for ill will they beare towarde Offences as for hate of the Gospell to the intent they maye by some meanes or other rayse a slaunder of it Yea rather whereas they theÌ„selues are the Authours of Offences of very spight most impudeÌ„tly thei turne the blame thereof al together vppon the Gospell With such slaunders the bookes of Sadolet Eckius Pyghius Cochlaeus and such like ar to be sÃ©ene throughly fraughted The first and seconde sorte are to be dealt withall somwhat more gently but the thirde and fourth sorte are to be entreated more sharply For what point is it I say not of humanitie for what humanitie can ye looke for at this cruell beastes handes but of honestie to obiect reprochefully against the sonne of God the thinges for whiche they them selues are altogether to blame But wee will looke better vpoÌ„ these things afterward my minde was onely at the beginninge to admonishe my readers what kinde of men I purposed to deale with to thinteÌ„t they might thereby iudge what they had to looke for in this litle booke The weake and vnskilfull shall finde here wherwith to arme them selues for the ouercomyng of all Offences The wicked shal finde as much as shall suffice to disproue their abhominable slaunders It is a greate matter that I promisse but I trust I shall satisfie indifferent Iudges For it is not to be hoped that I shoulde heale the diseases of all men And I haue alreadye condemned him of greate folly if any man will endeuer to bringe to passe that Christe shoulde not be a stumblyng blocke to the wicked The Scripture muste nÃ©edes be fulfilled which hath tolde before that it shuld come so to passe And I doo not looke that this my trauell shoulde woorke any other effect than that their rage shoulde be more and more inflamed But I haue respect to the weakelings whose faith as the wicked sort goe about to shake down so it behoueth vs as it were by puttinge vnder our handes to stay it vp As coÌ„cerninge them that be desperate it sufficeth me if I may represse their malapertnesse or at leastwise if I may brynge to passe that the infection of their poyson maye spred it selfe no further And for asmuch as what matter so euer a man entreateth of distinctions are wonte to giue great light vnto it I will here make a briefe distinction betwÃ©ene the chiefe kindes of Offences which haue bothe troubled the course of the Gospell from the beginninge and also doo hinder it at this day Therfore of Offences if it sÃ©eme good let vs cal some inward which at leastwise as men suppose springe of the Gospell it self or although they grow otherwise yet are they almoste euer annexed vnto it And let vs call other some outwarde as springing out of heades altogether strauÌ„ge and remoued from the Gospell Of the first kinde are those that haue their beginning as it were enclosed in the very doctrine of the Gospel Paule saieth that the Gospell is foolishnesse to the worldely wisemen The whiche is trewe not onely bicause the homely and vnpainted simplicitie therof is had in derision by them but also bicause many thinges are therein conteined whiche to mans iudgement are not onely very absurde but also very toyes to laughe at For wheras it is preached that the sonne of God who is eternall life did take our fleshe vpon him became a mortall man and that by his death was purchaced vnto vs life by his coÌ„demnation our rightuousenesse by his curse our saluation it abhorreth so muche from the coÌ„mon sense of men that the sharper witted any man is the sooner he casteth it of And now seinge the Gospell spoyleth vs of all prayse of wisedome vertue and rightuousnes leauinge nothinge to vs of our owne but vtter shame it cannot otherwise be but it muste greatly offende vs. For suche is the pryde of our fleshe that no man will willingly suffer those thinges to be wrested from him with the vaine imagination whereof we are all puffed vp Herevpon riseth a most sharpe conflicte These thinges also touchyng the deniyng of our selues the crucifiyng of the olde man the despisinge of the world the embracing of the Crosse howe sore doo they with their sharpnesse OffeÌ„de vs But the experieÌ„ce hereof is yet farre harder when the faith is tried by persecutions and other calamities Besides these there are other thinges also whiche partely sÃ©eme vnto mans reason Paradoxes and thinges full of absurditie as the thinges we spake of first and specially doo minister occasion of crabbed questions whiche anon after doo also hatche as many Offences that is to say innumerable Such is the doctrine of Predestination and other like Of the seconde sorte are these that as soone as the Gospell springeth vp by and by followe turmoyles and seditions the wickednesse of many whiche before was hidden is discouered many sectes and monstruous heresies vnhearde of before doo swarme vp many doo proudly take occasion of more licentious libertie many of the professors by the filthie example of their life doo shame the doctrine it selfe some whiche for a time sÃ©emed very feruent doo not onely waxe lazie but like most horrible rebelles doo vtterly fall froÌ„ Christe Moreouer the Deuill by wonderfull craftes setteth together by the eares good otherwise sincere teachers of the truth to the intent through their infirmitie to caste some slaunder vppon the doctrine Furthermore bicause that of the very newnesse thereof others take libertie to be bolder than they should be it

moste wise in their owne conceites when they laughe our simplicitie to skorne in that by assured faith we embrace those thinges whiche not onely wante proofe to the outwarde senses but are also to mans iudgement incredible What idiot say they would suffer himselfe to be perswaded where he seeth no reason to leade him To foolish were I if I would stande in contention with them by such reasons as the sharpenesse of mans witte atteyneth too For wheras we belÃ©eue that Christe was manifested to be God in the fleshe Paule confesseth the same to be a misterie farre remoued from all perceiuerance of man What then if they would obiect vnto vs that it were an absurditie and that we out of hande did readely wash our hands of it in such sort that they should be compelled to stande dombe onlesse they wold impudently barke against vs yet coulde I not bring to passe but that they would counte vs more dulheaded than any Idiotes that would hange onely vppon the bare Scriptures in the debatinge of so weightie matters Wherefore I will turne me to those that are tempted with such kinde of stumblinge blockes but are neuerthelesse as yet curable Unto such I will minister none other Medicine than that whiche Paule hath prescribed namely that they learne to be foolish to the worldwarde to the entent thei may be able to conceiue the heauenly wisedome We meane not by this foolishnesse that men should haue their wittes altogether dulled or amazed neither do we bid that such as are learned in liberal sciences should cast away the knowledge of theÌ„ or that suche as are endewed with handsomnesse of witte shoulde become brutish as though he could not be a Christian onlesse he were liker a beast than a man The Christian profession requireth vs to be children not in vnderstandinge but in malice Howbeit least any man shoulde brynge into the schoole of Christe an affiaunce either in his owne witte or in his owne learnyng least any maÌ„ either swellyng in pride or ouercome with lothsomnesse should by and by put from him that which is laide before him before he haue throughly tasted of it if we doo but offer our selues willinge to be taught we shall finde here no let at all But they that are wise I saye in their owne conceites only to them their owne pryde is cause of fallinge And why so Bicause the sonne of God hath so muche abased him selfe as to become thy brother and ioyne his eternall Godhead to thy mortall fleash shall that be a lette to thÃ©e that thou shouldest not come vnto him wilt thou withdrawe thy selfe the further from God bicause from his vnmeasurable heighte he hath humbled him selfe to come downe to thÃ©e what if he shoulde call thÃ©e vp into the heighth of heauen whereto there is no accesse for thÃ©e of thy selfe how couldest thou make waye to him so farre of that arte offended at hym beynge so nÃ©ere hande But thou sayest it is a moÌ„struous thinge to thÃ©e when thou hearest that God is become mortall And what other thing is that else than that God beynge immortall dwelled in our mortall fleashe For the matter itselfe crieth out that this thinge was not in vayne preached of Iohn howe there was sÃ©ene in him suche glory bothe as was mÃ©ete for the Sonne of God also as shewed no darke token of his owne Godhead onlesse it were thy pleasure to deuise monsters y u couldest surely finde no monsters here Our faith hath that God tooke vpon him a bodie subiect to death Here thou hearest a Misterie whiche thou oughtest to honour and not a tale to scoffe at nor a Monster to starcle at Rather impute it to thine owne vnthankefulnesse that thy wonderinge at so inestimable a grace swalloweth not vp all thoughtes repugnant vnto it I know these thinges are spoken in vaine vnto many Neither is it hidden from me what a laughynge they make at vs bicause we sÃ©eke for life in the death of Christe grace in his curse and rightuousnesse in his condemnation Uerely say they so floweth colde water out of a burninge fornace light springeth so out of darknesse And hereuppon they conclude that nothinge is more foolish than we which hope for life at a dead mans hande whiche aske forgiuenesse of a condeÌ„ned person whiche fetch the grace of God out of one that was cursed flie for refuge to the Crosse as to the onely authour of euerlastinge saluation And therewithall laughyng at our simplicitie they thinke them selues very sharpewitted But I say they wante the thinge which is chiefest in trew wisedome that is to witte the fÃ©elinge of the conscience For what maner of wisedome what maner of Reason what maner of IudgemeÌ„t is it where the conscience is dulled But whereof cometh all this that they should so abhorre the principels of Christian Religion but that the Deuill hath altogether so sotted them that they are touched with no feare of Goddes iudgement nor conscience of sinne I said a little before that there was none other way for vs to come to the wisedome of God than by becomminge fooles to the worlde But of this humblenesse like as of all the rest of our Religion the foundation is conscieÌ„ce and the feare of the Lorde the whiche beinge taken away in vaine thou endeuorest to make vp the buildinge Therfore who so euer will easely vanquishe all the kindes of Offences by me mentioned let him no more but enter dÃ©epely into him selfe For assoone as he shall acknowledge his owne wretchednesse the way as well for him vnto Christ as for Christ vnto him shal by and by be paued made leuell The voice of the Prophet crieth prepare yÃ©e the waies of the Lorde And what other thing is meant by preparyng of this way but that men knowinge in how great distresse they were should beginne to long after Christ whome heretofore they lothed standynge in theyr owne conceite By the same meanes also we prepare vs a way vnto Christ yea rather that same godly longynge of ours shalbe to vs in stÃ©ede of horses shippes to carie vs saufely ouer al letts For like as to the atteininge of the higher scieÌ„ces is requisite a fine well furnished witte so to this heauenly Philosophie is requisite a subdewed minde For what taste can there be where as is lothinge what accesse can there be where the hart is enclosed locked vp with yronly hardnesse In vayne therefore shalte thou talke of Christe sauing vnto such as being vnfeinedly humbled doo fÃ©ele how great nÃ©ede thei haue of a redÃ©emer by whose benefite they may escape the destructioÌ„ of eternall death As many therfore as will not wilfully be deceiued and so perishe let them learne to begin with this lesson to know that thei haue to do with God to whome they must ones giue an accompt Let theÌ„ also set before their eies that iudgement seate whiche maketh euen the Angels to treÌ„ble Let them thinke that the Deuil is harde

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