Didaskalia De nobili dicto Davidis

glory of His grace. For the general actions of God, as well as His saving actions in the Church, tend to this: nor does the Lord do anything to His own reproach.

But if the righteous germinate, if they grow with increase, if finally they are fat and green even in old age, it all makes for the praise of the glory of God's grace.

Therefore the Psalmist says, That I may announce that Jehovah is upright, my Rock: and there is no iniquity in Him.

Wherefore it is most certain that it will come to pass that the righteous will flourish and grow: and that they will be refreshed and gladdened by the vigor of the Holy Spirit.

XXVII. Ta peismata The arguments/persuasions.

1. Therefore, the happiness of the saints ought to serve the glory of God.

2. But it is His glory that He is the upright governor of the world, in which there is nothing astrammon disordered/crooked: because His will is immutably upright and good, and all His effects are upright and good: because He is the rock, or the only most safe refuge, for the saints who sustain persecution in these lands: because, finally, there is no iniquity in Him: on which account no man has reason to complain about God, when He Himself not only does not depart even a little from justice, but is justice itself.

XXVIII. Use.

Therefore, although the saints, warring in these lands, are like sheep dwelling among wolves: and have their observers, who, intent on opportunities, rise up and do not refrain from doing evil: yet, relying on God as their helper, they sing with David: In God I will praise His Word: in God I trust, I will not fear. What shall flesh do to me? (Ps. 56:4).

XXIX.

The whole Church also repeats the sweetest consolation of its Redeemer, who addresses it thus: I, I am your comforter: who are you that you should fear from a man who shall die, and from the son of man who shall be given as the grass? That you forget Jehovah your maker.