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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

gelous God visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children euen to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me 10 And shewing mercie to thousandes of them that loue me keepe my Commaundements BEcause men are so farre inclined to corrupte the worshippe of God by wicked superstitions it behoueth that God feare them by his threates to the end they might be as it wereforceably kept backe when otherwise they woulde carrie them selues headlong by their vanitie to imagine of GOD cleane contrarie to all that which is agreeable with his Maiestie And this is a pointe worthie to bee noted For it seemeth as wee haue alreadie touched that it was now needelesse to forbidde the people of Israel to make any images after they had knowen the liuing god But because of our cursed inclination it was requisite that this so streight a forbidding as wee see should be adioyned And this is done as well for vs as for them because this vice is as it were settled in our bones If God shewe not that he will not suffer idolatrie and that wee bee not wounded with such threats there is not one amongest vs which forgeth not an infinite number of idols and by this meane the honour due to the liuing God is transported vnto our fantasies Let vs note then that here we are reproued of hauing a cursed and peruerse nature whiche alwayes draweth vs to superstition and that there is great need that we be held backe after some violent and forceable manner For of our owne good will we neuer serue GOD in such sort as that we imagine nothing of him but that which is proper to his Maiestie And withall wee may note to what purpose our good meanings serue vs For if there be any thing in whiche men may excuse them selues with this that they thinke they do well it is when they forge vnto them selues idols For to what end doe they make them but to serue God to bee stirred vp to greater deuotion and to haue a more strong assuraunce that GOD will heare them in their requestes These then are the men whiche may best pretend this colour of good meaning but yet we see on the contrarie side that God hereby is grieuously angred wee see how he pronounceth an horrible sentence of condemnatiō vpon all them which leaue them selues to be gouerned by their thinking and meaning They will say still and the thing is so That they thinke to serue God but what He accepteth no such seruice but rather accurseth it and that by good right For as wee haue aboue shewed his maieslie is disguised when one will make vnto him a visible image We are then instructed in this place to doe nothing as seemeth vs especially when there is any question of the seruice of God that we attempt nothing after our owne fantasies but that wee followe in all simplicitie that which he appointeth by his worde without adding of any thing vnto it whatsoeuer For assoone as wee shall haue declined neuer so little herein what euer we alledge to make our cause good God will not leaue vs vnpunished For this is no vaine threate when he saith That he is a God of gelousie and anger which visiteth the iniquitie of parentes vpon their children Thus you see then two pointes which wee haue to beare in minde in this place The one is that because wee are by nature ouer much giuen to idolatrie this threatning of God commes alwayes before our eyes to the end we presume not to mingle any thing with his word or to deuise any kind of idolatrie but that we serue him purely according to his nature and not according to our fantasie And let this be for one note The other is that we knowe we must not pretend our good me aninges to iustifie that which we shall haue inuented and deuised but contrarie wise let vs remember that the principall seruice which God requireth is obedience Nowe let vs come to the wordes which are set downe in this sentence God saith in the first place I am thy euerliuing thy God or thy mightie and strong one Here againe he setteth himselfe against all idols For wee haue alreadie seene that to redresse the superstitions of the Israelites he declared himselfe in his maiestie Nowe this is to take all excuse from men when GOD once manifesteth himselfe vnto them When wee knowe not which is the true religion neither can discerne who is the true GOD it is no maruell if all our senses wander and wee runne hither and thither without any right directing of our wayes as poore wanderers but when God hath once declared himselfe vnto vs and wee knowe his trueth then is there great reason that all our dreames fall to the grounde and that wee abide stedfast in that whereof wee haue knowledge For this cause God repeateth this thing That he hath declared himselfe to his people and hath chosen them to himselfe and that he will gouerne them euen by the lawe which is nowe published And of purpose nameth he himself A gelous God wrathfull For this word importeth both these thinges And againe although he be called here God notwithstanding the worde he here vseth is deriued from a word which signifieth strength feare Now when he nameth himselfe Gelous there is no doubt but he meaneth thereby to signifie that he will not suffer that his honour be violated or that he be robbed of that which properly belongeth vnto him to haue it geuen to creatures that he can not patiently endure any such treacherie Therfore when the honour of God shall not be so priced on our part as it deserueth let vs knowe that he will not neglect it For wee shall feele in the end that he forgetteth not himselfe but will mainteine his glorie as he declareth throughout all the holie scripture Verely if wee had but one droppe of true vnderstanding wee woulde be zealous for the honour of our God so that wee needed not to be stirred vp herevnto wee woulde of our selues endeuour to accomplishe that which is written in the Psalmes that is That his zeale should deuoure vs that we shoulde burne within our selues when wee see his maiestie reprochfully abused it would be I say that wee should then feele within vs a burning and consuming fire But what Wee are curious to mainteine our owne honour and in the meane while wee will suffer that the honour of the Lorde bee trampled vnder feete that men make their sporte and game of it that men haue it in derision and mockerie or at least that men mangle and teare it in peeces And therefore when the worlde shall be wholie set on idolatrie when all of vs shall neglect our duetie in the seruice of God shall not our Lorde after he hath reproued our loosenesse and vnthankfulnesse in this point shewe that although wee haue bene carelesse herein he will yet haue such a zeale as behoueth him to mainteine his honour and