John Trapp on 2 Timothy 4:1

CHAP. IIII. Verſe 1. I charge thee therefore]

MAtters of greateſt importance muſt be preſſed with greateſt vehemence. As God putteth not forth great power, but for great purpoſe, Epheſ. 1.18, 19 ſo neither muſt we uſe great earneſtneſſe, but in affairs of great moment. It is a weakneſſe to be hot in a cold matter, but worſe to be cold in a hot matter. Farellus perſwading Calvin (then a young ſtudent, and bound for Italy) to ſtay and help in the Lords work at Geneva, pronounced Gods curſe upon his ſtudies (which Calvin pretended) in caſe he ſtaid not. Whereupon,M[illegible: 1 letter]lch. Adami in vita Calv. pag. 114. Non auſas fuit Calvinus ad Farelli tonitrua plus quam Periclea (ſaith mine authour) jugum vocationis, quod ſibi à Domino imponi videbat, detractare. Calvin durſt not ſtir after ſuch a charge, but ſtaid it out there to his dying day.