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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

cease from our earthlie affaires and all worldlie businesse to attend the better on the meditation of the works of God that wee may bee exercised to knowe the benefites he bestoweth on vs and aboue all that wee may bestow all our paines in acknowledging his gratious fauour whiche he offereth dailie in his Gospell to bee confirmed and established more and more therein when we shall haue emploied the Sunday to praise and magnifie the name of God and to meditate on his workes let vs shewe all the rest of the weeke how we haue profited herein Now let vs cast our selues downe before the face of our good God with acknowledging of our faults praying that it will please him to make vs feele them better than wee haue done And because wee can not in any respect serue him vntill this wickednesse and peruersnesse which is in vs be abolished and because he hath shewen that we shall not cease to make warre against his iustice as long as we shall lose the bridle to our wicked thoughtes and concupiscences pray we that it will please this good God by the power of his holy spirite to geue vs this grace to bee fullie conformed vnto him which is dead and risen for vs to the end he might mortifie and quicken vs that wee may beare the markes of our Lord Iesus euen in renouncing our selues and ordering our whole life so to his will that wee desire nothing but to bee conformed to his iustice to the end his lawe may bee accomplished in vs as it is spirituall and that wee bee reformed both in flesh and in spirite to liue vnder his obedience And forasmuch as wee so ofte returne vnto our selues pray wee that it will please this good God to beare with vs in our infirmities till his rest bee truelie accomplished in vs and that he hath gathered vs into his heauenlie kingdome That it will please him to graunt this grace not onelie vnto vs but to all people and nations of the earth c. The. 6. Sermon Deut. Chap. 5. 13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour and shalt doe all thy woorke 14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbaoth of the Lord thy God thou shalt not doe any woorke therein thou nor thy sonne not thy daughter nor thy man seruant nor thy maide nor thine oxe nor thine asse neither any of thy cattell nor the straunger that is within thy gates that thy man seruant and thy maide may rest as well as thou 15 Remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Aegypt and that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence with a mightie hand and a stretched out arme therefore the Lorde thy God commaunded thee to obserue the Sabbaoth day WE handled yesterday in what sorte and to what end the commaundement of obseruing the Sabboth day was giuen to the Iewes It was said in generall that this was a figure of the spirituall rest which the faithfull ought to keepe the better to serue and woorshippe god And seeing our Lord hath brought vs the full accomplishment of this it hath bene said that we must no longer rest and stay our selues on this shadowe of the Lawe but be content that our old man be crucified by the vertue of the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ to the end wee may bee renewed in our mindes wholie to serue our god Withall wee noted that wee stand in neede of some order and policie amongest vs and therefore it behoued that some certeine day should bee appointed to assemble vs together to bee confirmed in the doctrine of God and to make our profite therein euerie day euen all the time of our life that wee bee also exercised to call vppon his name to make confession of our faith and that the rest of this day bee spent in considering the benefites wee receiue at all times at the hand of God to the end he bee the more glorified in them And now haue we to note this whiche followeth in the text of Moses Sixe dayes thou shalt labour saith the lord This ought not to bee vnderstood as if God commaunded vs hereby preciselie to labour Howbeit it is true that we are borne to this and wee knowe that God meaneth not wee should bee idle as long as wee liue in this world For he hath giuen men hands and feete force and strength to this purpose Yea before sinne entered it is saide that Adam was placed in the garden of Eden to dresse it and keepe it Albeit the labour and trauell which men are now enioyned is a chastisement for sinne For it is thus denounced them In the sweate of thy face thou shalt eate thy breade This is a curse and malediction laide on mankind For we are not worthie to enioy the condition whiche was giuen to our father Adam that he might liue at pleasure without troubling or tormenting him selfe But yet before that sinne entred into the world and that wee were in this sort condemned of God to this painfull weariesome trauell it was requisite that men should exercise themselues with some labour And why Because this is contrarie to our nature that we shoulde be as logges and blockes vnprofitable So then it is verie certeine that wee ought to applie our selues to some labour all the time of our life But yet here in this place it is not simplie commaunded that we trauell sixe dayes For indeede there were other solemnities vnder the Lawe besides the rest of the Sabboth There were feastes which might happen in the middest of the weeke but because the number of them was small beeing onely foure dayes in the yeare there is no mention made of them but onely of the Sabbaoth Therefore when it is said Thou shalt labour sixe dayes our Lord woulde hereby signifie vnto vs that we ought not to complaine of yelding vnto him one certeine day when he leaueth vnto vs sixe for one As if he did say Shall the cost and charge be great vnto you to choose one day which may be wholy geuen to my seruice that you doe no other thing in it but reade and exercise your selues in my lawe or heare my doctrine whiche shal be preached vnto you a day to come to the Temple to the end you may be there confirmed by the sacrifices which are there made a day to call vppon my name to declare and protest that you are of the number and companie of my people Ought this to bee grieuous and burthensome vnto you seing you haue sixe dayes free to traffike and to doe your businesse in When I vse such gentlenesse towardes you that I demand but one day of seuen is not this an ouer great vnthankfulnesse on your part if you complaine of this time as beeing euill employed and if you bee such couetous niggardlie wretches as not to spare mee one seuenth part of the time I haue giuen you your whole life Whensoeuer the Sunne shineth vpon you you ought to acknowledge my goodnesse

opinions reasoning why this and why that And when we come to the high mysteries of God if they mislike vs we could wish that all were put out and abolished And this is all one as if we would plucke God out of heauen So then let vs learne that aboue all God commendeth vnto vs the honour and authoritie of his word as if he did say I will that you receiue all that which is conteined in the holy scripture that is in my word with all humilitie reuerence I will that you yeld your selues tractable although that which is there said agree not with your sense and reason and that you could wish I had spoken after your maner and fashion I will you do me this honour as to imprison all your senses and submit your vnderstanding to my word and to say Lord we are thy disciples we receiue without gainsaying whatsoeuer it hath pleased thee to teach vs knowing that it is for our profite and saluation Without exception therfore let all that which is comprised in the holy scripture be receiued with reuerence and when any question is of the holy mysteries of God let vs not geue iudgement according to our owne wit and vnderstanding And albeit the thinges be not conuenient and agreeable with our reason let vs notwithstanding be held backe in a short bridle that God may alwaies haue his whole entire authoritie ouer vs and his worde a full course and libertie And when we read the holy scriptures when we come to the Sermons let vs alwayes beare in minde to say Behold our God declareth himselfe vnto vs he sitteth as our Iudge we are not to make toyes and gambaldes of those things he shall speake As we see many will come to the Sermon But what They haue their hearts empoisoned against God and his word so that they can carie nothing thence which they peruert not with their wickednesse yea they will be further enuenomed to spue forth their blasphemies at table or els where when men shall speake any thing to their lust and appetite Loe how these men honour sanctifie the name of god Let vs learne then that whether we read the holy scripture or heare it handled in a Sermon to haue alwayes the name of God in reuerence and to yeld vnto him such maiestie that we tremble when one speaketh vnto vs hereof And aboue all when his word is preached as God speaketh by his Prophet Esaie For let vs know that so we shall declare our selues not onely by wordes but also by our deedes that we are his true faithfull ones and he shall take and auowe vs for his people and shall gather vs in the end into the inheritance of the kingdome of heauen Now let vs cast our selues downe before the face of our good God with at knowledging of our faultes praying him that it will please him not to impute those we haue alreadie committed vnto vs but that it will please him to reforme vs in such sort vnto himselfe that we desire no other thing than to honour him and to dedicate our selues vnto his seruice to the end he may dwel among vs and that our Lord Iesus Christ may reigne in vs both by his holy spirit by his word and so let vs say Almightie God and heauenlie father c. The. 5. Sermon Deut. Chap. 5. 12 Keepe the Sabbaoth day to sanctifie it as the Lord thy God hath commaunded thee 13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour and shalt do all thy worke 14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbaoth of the Lorde thy God thou shalt not do any worke therein thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter nor thy manseruant nor thy maide nor thine oxe nor thine asse neither any of thy cattell nor the straunger that is within thy gates that thy manseruaunt and thy maide may rest as well as thou AFter that it hath bene spoken of the pure and sincere worship of God of seruing him and glorifying his name without vaine taking of it either in othes or other thinges but reuerently and to the honour of God now here is mention made of the seruice of GOD according to that he hath required in his law touching the order he appointed for the exercise of the faithfull As the Sabbaoth day or day of rest was in part a figure to declare that men could not rightly serue God but by mortifying all that which is of their owne nature and afterward by dedicating themselues in such sorte vnto him as if they were wholy separated from the world Secondly the day of rest had this ceremonious vse to cause the people to assemble together to heare the lawe to call on the name of God to offer their sacrifices and to do all that which should concerne spirituall order and policie We see then now in what sort mention is made of the Sabbaoth day But this cannot be well sufficiently vnderstoode without some plainer and more distinct handling namely except both these parties should particularly be intreated We haue therfore first to note that the Sabbaoth day was a shadowe vnder the law vntill the comming of Christ to signifie that God will that men rest themselues from their owne workes And this is that which I haue said in a worde that we must mortifie our whole nature if we will be conformable to our god And that this is so S. Paule hath also declared Yea besides we haue sufficient testimonie hereof in the new testament But it shall suffice to haue alledged him at this time which speaketh more fully hereof namely to the Colossians when he saith That we haue the substaunce and the body of those thinges which were shadowed vnder the lawe We haue it saith he in Christ And therfore it was expedient that the auncient fathers should be exercised in this hope as well by the Sabbaoth day as by other ceremonies But ●ithence the thing is now giuen vs we ought not to stay our selues on these shadowes True it is that the law is so abolished that yet we ought to keepe the substaunce and truth thereof As for the shadowes and figures they are done away by the comming of Christ If one demaund how the auncient fathers knew of this sense and meaning Moses hath made declaration hereof as it is sufficiently shewed in the booke of Exodus For God after he had published his law in the 20. Chap. he reuealeth it to Moses and declareth to what ende this serueth and saith That he hath ordeined the Sabbaoth day as a signe that the people of Israel should be sanctified vnto him This is saith he the marke of my sanctification which I haue iustified among you Now when the scripture speaketh of our being sanctified vnto God it is to separate vs from all that which is contrarie to his worship and seruice But where shall one finde such puritie We are in the world we know that in the world there is nothing but peruersenes and wickednes

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

nature desireth If this example of GOD stirre vs not vp wee declare sufficiently that wee seeke not to obey him and by this meanes wee searche not after in any respect the true felicitie but desire willingly to abide in our pouertie and wretchednesse The souereigne goodnesse and chiefe felicitie of men as I haue saide is this that they cleaue vnto their god Beholde our Lorde calleth vs to himselfe and sheweth that wee can haue no true and holie coniunction with him but by resting our selues from our owne workes So then if wee bee still flitting in our fansies if wee labour hande and foote to put that in practise which shall seeme good vnto vs it is certeine this is as if we would breake the bondes which lincke GOD and vs together and withdrawe our selues from him as much as in vs lieth And by this may not a man see that we desire nothing els but to bee set forth as a prey vnto Sathan who driueth vs on headlong and maketh vs to wander forasmuch as we remaine no longer vnder the garde and protection of our GOD But what Few there are which consider of this aright Wee see the libertie euerie man yealdeth vnto himselfe When one warneth a man that hee ought not to walke after his owne heartes lust What I knowe will hee saie howe I ought to rule my selfe Verilie a man knoweth not how to despite GOD in more open manner than by such a rebellion This is as much as if wee would saie that wee will not that GOD haue any superioritie ouer vs It is true men will not openly protest this but the matter is so For as I haue alreadie saide there is no true worship except wee hence take our beginning to withdrawe our selues from our owne lustes and affections Now then when men will bee so wise in their owne conceite when they put such confidence in their owne witte and reason when they geue themselues all libertie to doe what so euer seemeth them good when they followe their owne affections and fansies when they will take no paine to represse them Nay are grieued when any woulde daunte and tame them it is a sure signe they neuer knewe wherein consisteth the true worship of GOD neuer vnderstoode the chiefe and principall pointe of the lawe And so let vs note well that when GOD alledgeth his owne example it is to allure vs with all mildenesse and gentlenesse to the obseruation of the lawe and keeping of this spirituall rest And withall let vs note as I haue alreadie touched that wee are wretched and miserable when we are separated and remoued from him And behold the bonde of our coniunction namely that drawing neere to his truth and religion wee suffer our selues to bee guided and gouerned by him Nowe a man may demaund for what cause the Iewes were commaunded to rest onely the seuenth day for wee ought not for one day in the weeke renounce our lustes and affections but wee must continue in that minde all the time of our life Briefly the rest which the Lord commaundeth is perpetuall and without any ceasing or intermission How then is it that he hath chosen one onely day in the weeke It was to shewe that when we shall haue applied all our studies to abandon our false opinions our wicked concupiscences all that which procedeth from our peruerse and corrupt nature that yet we cannot come fullie to this vntill we be wholy ridde of our flesh In deed the faithfull ought their whole life time to obserue the Sabbaoth day they ought to geue ouer their owne desires forsake their owne workes seeke to offer vp themselues wholy to God in all humilitie to order themselues after his will they ought to continue in his obedience I say wee must do so or otherwise all the seruice we shall do vnto God is but feignednesse hypocrisie and as for him he will disallow and reiect it Neuerthelesse we cannot acquite our selues wholy in this to renounce our affections in such sorte that there be no blame found in vs Saint Paule glorifieth in this that the world was crucified vnto him and he vnto the world Yet in the meane time he ceaseth not to say that the flesh fighteth with the spirite and haue no agreement together yea he confesseth also in the seuenth to the Romanes that he alwayes perceiued in himselfe this strife that he did not the good which he would that is to say he accomplished it not with so feruent a desire neither was he so resolued to walke according vnto God but that he had alwayes many stoppes and hinderaunces to stay him in such sort that he seemed to halte in stead of strong and vpright running Sithence then it is so let vs note that not without cause God ordeined the seuenth day for the Sabbaoth day signifying thereby that we cannot neither in one day neither in one moneth come to this perfection of sanctimonie and holinesse which he requireth of vs And why Because that when we shall haue manfully fought against the lustes and affections of our flesh against our euil thoughts and desires yet shall there be alwayes a residue and remnant in vs vntill we be fullie ioyned and associated with our GOD and that he hath gathered vs into his heauenlie kingdome Vntill that time there shall be alwayes some temptations in vs there shall bee alwayes some troubles some vnquietnesse we shall alwayes feele I meane those which seek to please God that we are yet subiect to many temptations and that there remaine in our nature many prickes by the which we are stirred vp and prouoked to this and to that And are not these so many lets to hinder the spirituall rest If a man did repose himselfe and rest so in God as he should do he should conceiue nothing in his fantasie which might turne him from the right way he should haue in him no euill affections or desires All these thinges should be farre from him Therfore when we conceiue so many wicked fantasies loe Sathan commeth to assaile and to shake vs with so many disquietings When we shall haue thought to doe well there arise some thinges in our minde which tickle and flatter vs and so albeit we hate that which is euill yet by such temptations we are prouoked to pursue after and to follow it And by this a man may see that it is no easie thing to be without all wicked concupiscences and to cast them off so that they beare no rule at all in vs So then let vs continually follow this studie and desire of celebrating the spirituall rest of God because we shall not come to the perfection thereof vntill the end of our life Now hereby we are admonished of two thinges The one is that we be in displeasure with our selues and mourne perpetually for our sinnes And although it seemeth that we haue bestowed great paine to make our selues obedient vnto GOD yet let vs knowe that we are alwayes but

man hath not that which is his and that we seeke not to conserue and keepe vnto him that which God hath put into his handes and will that a man keepe that which he hath For example If a seruant riottously consume the good of his maister he is a theefe If a labouring man or if one of occupation seeke nothing but to haue his dayes hire and in the meane time loy●ereth and could wish his worke done and his potage supt as we say it is certeine he is a theefe and we shall well iudge him so But wee must proceede further to other the like kindes of theft and make this comparison When we render not vnto a man that which of right apperteineth vnto him let vs know that this iniquitie shall be accounted as theft before God and we shall be condemned therefore But now it remaineth that we consider howe we shall walke in such sort that God accuse vs not as theeues This shall be if first of all we loue our neighbours as Saint Paul declareth in the 13. to the Romans And this is to be maruelled at that we account the matter so small to spoyle another of his goodes seeing that if one should demaund vs this puestion whether this is to loue our neighbours and whether it be an harde thing to loue them wee would say no. For nature would knit men together in this vnitie and God hath formed them all vnto his image and likenesse and therfore this ought not to seeme a thing ouer hard and grieuous to loue together Now so it is that if we haue charitie we shall neuer steale as Saint Paule saieth yea if ye would consider of that right and dutie which we owe vnto men and how we are bound vnto them we needed not all these admonitions warnings Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt not commit adulterie Thou shalt not murther as S. Paule hath declared in that place But what There are verie fewe which thinke hereon But contrariwise as I haue said we are full of vaine excuses when we haue pilled one of his goods when we haue vsed anie fraud anie malicious dealing anie extortion wee haue one excuse or other readie at hand to serue vs But yet it appeareth by our deedes that we haue no charitie that we are as brute beasts briefly that we are not worthie to be numbred among men seeing we breake the bonde of vnion in the which God would couple together all the children of Adam Lo then for the first note let vs learne this lesson of charitie if we will not be theeues For the seconde let vs note that wee couet not to bee rich For as soone as this desire of gaine shall bee in vs it is certeine wee shall play the theeues it can not bee otherwise One shall at first sight thinke it straunge but yet when euerie one shall haue awakened his vnderstanding nature shall teache vs as the Ethnikes knewe well to say that it is impossible to desire to bee riche but wee shall foorthwith bee inflamed to scrape vnto our selues by hooke or by crooke the goodes of an other Will we then flie and auoyde theft Wee must laie aside all couetousnesse that is all desire of enriching our selues that there be founde no longer anie cauill in the worde And howe shall we do this Let vs learne to content our selues with our estate and condition For he which shall not haue a certeine rule but shal be always moued by some couetousnesse his affections shall carrie him from one side to another in such sort that he shall neuer haue any rest to say I must holde my selfe within my bounds I say the condition and estate which God hath giuen vnto euerie one ought to bee as a list and border to keepe him in as if it were saide vnto him Loe thy God will that thou passe not this which he hath giuen thee Hold thy selfe content otherwise thou not onely troublest all humane order but thou despisest God as if thou didst make warre with him Beholde what we haue to note that is when we shall haue this rule of charitie to conduct vs that we ought to learne to content our selues with our condition And why Let vs know that this is the will of God that herein he will proue our obedience Nowe this cannot be done vnlesse we obserue withall the rule of S. Paule that is that we haue lerned to be rich to be poore to hunger to thirst as well as to haue abundance Saint Paule saith not onely that we ought to be patient in pouertie and protesteth that he hath had his part herein therefore hath giuen vs an example hereof hath shewed vs the way but he saith that we must learne to be riche and to liue in plentie abundance And what meaneth this It semeth a needlesse thing to tell vs so busily of patience When we are poore euerie man knoweth well that we haue neede thereof And why For we shal be tempted to many inconueniences It is an hard matter and grieuous when a man shal not haue bread to eate albeit he hath browne bread yet would he full faine haue his ease and commoditie further So touching pouertie euerie one will confesse that we haue need to be comforted and to be warned that we must not be tempted to do euill But when he saith it behoueth that wee know how to be rich a man will scorne this saying as grounded vpon no reason yet this doctrine is more necessarie than the first And why Let vs consider a little what these rich are euen bottomles gulfes which can neuer be satisfied which are harder to content than anie poore man If we make comparison betweene the rich and poore wee shall find among the poore manie which vexe and torment themselues which are froward and waywardly bent manie which are induced to pilfering and to exercise manie wicked sleights and practises and againe we shall find also a great part content themselues with that which God hath giuen them and keepe themselues within their limittes and borders But when we come to consider of the rich euen as farre as vnto Kings and Princes we shall find that they are so inflamed and set on fire that they burne with such a desire after the goodes of this world that they are neuer contented yea they are as it were grieued that the Sunne shineth vpon the poore Briefly we shall see that the most part of those rich men to whom God hath giuen the whole earth in possession not yet to be satisfied and to account it ynough For as I haue saide they are yet grieued that the poore haue one common light of the Sunne with them and that the poore drinke water And albeit the poore trauell and labour and doe the best they are able for them yet a rich man will enuie and also spite at them although he enioy the sweate of their browes and hath euen the fruite