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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17706	Sermons of M. Iohn Caluine vpon the Epistle of Saincte Paule to the Galathians; Sermons de M. Jean Calvin sur l'Epistre S. Paul apostre aux Galates. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1574 (1574)	STC 4449; ESTC S122190	610,760	704

¶ SERMONS of M. Iohn Caluine vpon the Epistle of Saincte Paule to the Galathians ¶ Imprinted at London by Lucas Harison and George Bishop 1574. TO THE RIGHT HONOrable Sir William Cecill knight Baron of Burleygh Lord high Treasurer of England Mayster of the Queenes Maiesties Courtes of Wardes and Liueries Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and one of hir highnesse most honorable priuie Counsell continuance of health with prosperitie and increace of honour YOur Lordships great goodnesse diuerse times shevved tovvards mee abiding still fresh in my remembrance to my no small comfort calleth vpō me continually to shevv some token of thankfulnesse for the same For needes I must confesse that it hath vttered it selfe many and sundrie vvayes and that if I may vvith your Lordships good leaue say as I think not vvithout a certaine freendly or rather fatherly care of my vveldoing specially in that lōg cōtinued sute of mine in the Exchecquer vvhere your iust fauour I meene in respect of the iust cace and not of any desert of mine procuring mee credit and helpe to the furtherance of my matter hath bin the very maintenance and safetie of my right vvhich else had bin troden vnder foote by the ouer mightinesse of mine aduersaries And heere it behoueth mee also too acknovvledge the vpright administracion of Iustice extended vvith fauour in that so intricate cace both by the Iudges and Chauncelour and by all other the Queenes maiesties officers of that Court. For after many heerings of the matter vvith great patience and circumspection and vvith shevving of suche recordes for both partes as vvere knovven or thought to make for the manifesting of the cace at length vvhen the matter could not grovve too speedie end by reason of certain difficulties and incidents falling thereinto about the first enterance of your honour into the office of high Treasurer it vvas by consent of the Court put in cōprimise to such persones as both parties are very vvell contented vvith By meanes vvherof being discharged of my former continuall cares trauels expenses and troubles I had the freer libertie to follovve this mine accustomed exercize of translating vvhich mee thought vvas too mee a singular benefite And my rehersing of these things is not to diminish the thank vvhich I ovve to your honour by interlacing of other mens doings but to shevv to hovv many I am beholden through your goodnesse and that I am loth to be vnmindfull of my duetie tovvardes you or them so farre as oportunitie may vvell serue to vvitnesse the same Novv then to the i●●ent I might the better accōplish this my desire tovvardes your honour I bethought me of the counsel of the vvise Philosopher Seneca in his bookes of Benefiting the effect vvherof consisteth chiefly in these three poynts namely that the thing vvhich is done or bestovved too vtter thankfulnesse vvithall ought to be very good very durable and very acceptable to the partie that is to receiue it That the tvvo former poynts are in this vvorke vvhich I vpon trust of your Lordships former goodnesse and accustomed fauour do take vpon mee to dedicate to your name and that the third poynt also shall accompanie it the reasons that persvvade mee are these The things that of their ovvne nature tende only to the vvelfare and benefite of man must of necessitie be very good and of the things that are good those are alvvaies best vvhich may redound to the cōmoditie of most persones and vvhich being once possessed cannot be taken avvay against the vvill of the possesser Seing then that the foundation of this vvorke is a parcell of holy scripture and that as sayeth S. Paule all Scripture giuen by inspiratiō of God is profitable to teach to reproue to amend and to furnish men vvith rightuousnesse that they may be perfect and forevvard to al good vvorkes in somuch that it is the povver of God tending to the vvelfare of all that beleeue both Ievves and Gentyles and therevvithall conteyneth promises not only of this present life but also of the life too come it cānot but be of the self same nature propertie and operation that the rest of the scriptures are bicause as sayeth S. Peter the scripture came not by the vvill of man but holy men of God spake as they vvere moued by the holie Ghost And herevpon springeth another cōmendacion to the proofe of the goodnesse of this vvorke that the Author therof is God the souerain goodnesse it selfe and not man To be short the same reasons may serue also to proue the durablenesse thereof For besides that God him selfe protesteth that his vvord shall indure for euer and that the very heauens shal perish before any one iote of his sayings take not effect in asmuch as this booke cōteyneth not vvorldly vncertaine and perishing but heauenly assured and euerlasting benefites nor things auaylable to fevve but profitable to all vnlesse they thēselues be to blame and moreouer that God is the Author thereof it must by all likelyhood needes continue vvith other of the same sort at leastvvise among the godly not for a day or tvvo but so long as men shall haue neede to be edified and strengthened in Christ VVhich thing vvill appeere yet more plainly if besides these generalities vvhich it hath cōmon vvith all the residue of holy scripture vve consider the vvorke more peculiarly and neerly in it self vvhich consisteth of tvvoo partes too vvit of Text and of exposition of the Text. The substance of the text of this vvhole Epistle to the Galathians is this that vvhen God hath once voutchsafed to inlighten men vvith the true knovvledge of his gospell it behoueth them to stand stedfast in the truth vvhich they haue imbraced to shevv by their godly conuersation that they be the children of light so as they nother turne backe againe as renegates or as svvine to the myre nor be caried too and fro vvith euery blast of doctrine like vvauering reedes or like little children that are soone vveerie of the things that they haue and fond of euery nevv thing that they see Hereoutof spring other more particular poynts concerning free iustification by fayth concerning Christen libertie concerning the abolishing of Ceremonies concerning the force and effect of the lavv and concerning the pure conuersatiō of christian lyfe For the order vvhich the vvriters of holy Scripture obserue vvell neere in all their Preachings and exhortations is first to lay the foundacion of faith in our Lord Iesus Christ and aftervvard to build vp the vvorkes of charitie and true holinesse of life vvithout the vvhich faith is not onely naked but also dead Thus much concerning the Texte and the contents of the same The exposition vvhereof being vttered in Sermons by that learned and godly minister of Christ Maister Caluin vvhose ovvne doings tending alvvaies too the benefite of Gods Churche may yeelde him farre more credite than any commendacion of mine can doo containeth not any