Sermons on Job, Sermons · Prayer 2
The Prayer that Maiſter John Caluin ordinarily made at the ending of this Sermons.
LEt vsus fall dovvne before the face of our good God, &c. (Here he addeth as the matter treated of … ſermō, giueth him occaſion to require at Gods hand, and bycauſe the ſame chaungeth almoſt in euerie Sermō, it cannot here be ſpecified.) That it may pleaſe him too graunt this grace, not onelyonly too vsus, but alſo too all people and nations of the earth, bringing backe all poore ignorant ſoules from the miſ…le bondage of error and darkneſſe, too the right vvay of ſaluation, for the doing vvherof, it may pleaſe him to raiſe vp true and faithfull miniſters of his vvord, that ſeeke not their ovvne profit and vainglorie, but onelyonly the aduancement of his holy name, and the vvelfare of his flocke: and c…rarivviſe roo… out al ſects, errors and hereſies, vvhichwhich are ſeedes of trouble and diuiſiō among his …, to the … vve may liue in good brotherly concord all togither: and that it may pleaſe him to guide vvith his h… ly ſpirit, all kings, princes, and magiſtrates that hauehave the rule of ſvvord, to the end that thei… …ning be not by couetouſneſſe, crueltie, tyrannie, or any other euill and diſordered affection, but i… iuſtice and vprigthneſſe, and that vve alſo liuing vnderunder them, may yeeld them their due honor a… obedience, that by the meane of good peace and quietneſſe vve may ſerue god in all holineſſe and ho…eſtie: & that it may pleaſe him to comfort all afflicted perſōs, vvhom he viſiteth after diuers mā ners vvith croſſes and tribulations: all people vvhome he afflicteth vvith plague, vvarre or famin… or other his rods: and all perſons that are ſmitten vvith pouertie, impriſoment, ſickneſſe, baniſhment or other calamitie of body or vexation of mind: giuing them all good patience, till he ſend them full diſcharge of their miſeries: and ſpecially that it may pleaſe him too hauehave pitie vponupon all his poore faythfull ones, that are diſperſed in the captiuitie of Babylon, vnderunder the tyranie of Antichriſt, cheefly vvhichwhich ſuffer perſecution for the vvitneſsing of his truth, ſtrengthening them vvith true conſtancie, and comforting them, and not ſuffring the vvicked and rauening vvolues too execute their rage againſt them, but giuing them ſuch a true ſtedfaſtneſſe as his holy name mayebe glorified by them both in life and death: and finally that it may pleaſe him to ſtrengthen all Churches that are novvadayes in daunger and aſſaulted for the quarell of his holy name, and ouerthrovv and deſtroy all the deuiſes, practiſes and attemptes of all his aduerſaries, too the intent that his glorie may ſhine ouer all, and the kingdome of our Lorde Ieſus Chriſt be increaſed and aduaunced more and more: Let vsus pray him for al the ſayde thinges in ſuch vviſe as our good maſter and Lorde Ieſus Chriſte hath taught vsus to pray, ſaying: Our father, &c.
ALſo let vsus pray our good God to giuegive vsus true continuance in his holy faith, and to increaſe it frō day to day, vvhereof vve vvill make confeſsion, ſaying: I beleeue in God the father, &c.
The bliſsing of the people after the Sermon.
THe grace of God the father and the peace of our Lorde Ieſus Chriſt through the felovvſhip of the holy Ghoſt dvvell vvith vsus for euer.
Amen.
IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY Henrie Binneman, for Lucas Hariſon and George Bishop. Anno. 1574.
End of the text · John Calvin, Sermons on Job (1574)