REDUCED FROM $6,500 TO $4,995 GIANT CLEARANCE SALE!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO!   SEE MY OTHER ITEMS OR YOULL BE SORRY! CLICK BELOW, SOME ARE ENDING SOON! http://stores.ebay.com/THE-WORD-Antiquarian-Books   ULTRA, ULTRA-RARE & VALUABLE $$$ FIND! ANCIENT 1583 FIRST-ENGLISH EDITION! LARGE FOLIO SIZE W/ ORIGINAL GILT LEATHER BINDING! *** FIRST ENGLISH-EDITION! ***   1583 [First English Edition] "THE SERMONS OF. M. IOHN CALVIN VPON THE FIFTH BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED DEUTERONOMIE. Calvin, Jean (1509-1564) The Sermons of. M. Iohn Calvin vpon the Fifth Book of Moses called Deuteronomie: Faithfully gathered word for word as he preached them in pen Pulpet; Together with a preface of the Ministers of the Church of Geneua, and an admonishment made by the Deacons there. Also there are annexed two profitable Tables, the one containing the chiefe matters; the other the places of Scripture therein alledged. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding. At London, Printed by Henry Middleton for Thomas Woodcocke. Anno Domini 1583. Folio: 278 x 192 mm. 6, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6, Aaaa-Zzzz6, Aaaaa-Yyyyy6, Zzzzz4, *8 First Edition in English. Bound in full contemporary calf leather, the boards framed by a single gold rule and with a large gilt-stamped Arabesque at the center of each board. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid over, head and foot of spine and corners redone. Remains of ties. A vellum manuscript fragment c. 1200 A.D. in Latin has been used to back the text block. Internally and externally, this copy is in excellent condition! The margins are wide and clean. Faded ownership inscription on title. A large woodcut printer's device appears on the Title-Page which is Dated 1583! IN VERY EXCELLENT TIGHT AND SOUND ORIGINAL 1583 CONDITION INSIDE & OUT! Calvin exploited two traditional metaphors for the life of a Christian. Living in an unusually militant age, he drew on the familiar idea of the believer's life as a ceaseless, quasi-military struggle against the powers of evil both within the self and in the world. The Christian, in this conception, must struggle against his own wicked impulses, against the majority of the human race on behalf of the Gospel, and ultimately against the Devil. Paradoxically, however, Christian warfare consists less in inflicting wounds on others than in suffering the effects of sin patiently, that is, by bearing the cross. In Calvin's thought the metaphor for the Christian life as conflict thus takes on the added meaning of acquiescence in suffering. The disasters that afflict human existence, though punishments for the wicked, are an education for the believer; they strengthen faith, develop humility, purge wickedness, and compel him to keep alert and look to God for help. The second traditional metaphor for the Christian life employed by Calvin, that of a journey or pilgrimage--i.e., of a movement toward a goal--equally implied activity. "Our life is like a journey," Calvin asserted; yet "it is not God's will that we should march along casually as we please, but he sets the goal before us, and also directs us on the right way to it." This way is also a struggle because no one moves easily forward and most are so weak that, "wavering and limping and even creeping along the ground, they move at a feeble pace." Yet with God's help everyone can daily make some advance, however slight. Notable in this conception is a single-mindedness often associated with Calvinism: Christians must look straight ahead to the goal and be distracted by nothing, looking neither to the right nor left. Calvin allows them to love the good things in this life, but only within limits. Thus the Christian life is a strenuous progress in holiness, which, through the constant effort of the individual to make the whole world obedient to God, will also be reflected in the progressive sanctification of the world. These processes, however, will never be completed in this life. For Calvin even the most developed Christian in this world is like an adolescent, yearning to grow into, though still far from, the full stature of Christ. But, Calvin assured his followers, "each day in some degree our purity will increase and our corruption be cleansed as long as we live in the world," and "the more we increase in knowledge, the more should we increase in love." Meanwhile the faithful experience a vision, always more clear, of "God's face, peaceful and calm and gracious toward us." So the spiritual life, for Calvin as for many before him, culminates in the vision of God." (EB) STC 4443.5; Erichson p.38. 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