The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles, faithfully translated…The commentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the Actes of the Apostles, faithfully translated…

28 It seemed good to the holy ghost and to us. Whereas the Apostles and Elders match & join themselves with the holy ghost, they attribute nothing to themselves apart therein: but this speech importeth as much as if they should say, that the holy ghost was the captain, guide & governor: and that they did set down and decreed that which they write as he did indite it to them. For this manner of speech is used commonly in the scripture: to give the ministers the second place after that the name of God is once expressed. When it is said that the people believed God and his servant Moses, faith is not rent in pieces, as if it did addict it self partly to God & partly to mortal man. What then? to wit, whereas the people had God for the sole author of their faith, they believed or gave credence to his minister from whom he could not be separate. Neither could they otherwise believe god, then by believing the doctrine set before them by Moses:¹ as they did shake off the yoke of God, after that they had once rejected & despised Moses. Whereby the wickedness of those men is also refuted, who making boast of faith with full mouth, do no less wickedly then proudly contemn the ministry. For as it were a sacrilegious partition, if faith should depend even but a very little upon man: so those men do openly mock god, who feign that they have him to be their teacher, when they set nought by the ministers by whom he speaketh. Therefore the apostles deny that they invented that decree of their own brain which they deliver to the Gentiles, but that they were only ministers of the Spirit, that they may with the authority of god make them commendable which (proceeding from him) they do faithfully deliver. So when Paul maketh mention of his gospel, he doth not enforce upon them a new gospel, which is of his own inventing, but he preacheth that which was committed to him by Christ.

28 It seemed good to the holy ghost and to vs. Whereas the Apostles and Elders match & ioyn themselues with the holy ghost, they attribute nothing to themselues apart therein: but this speech importeth as much as if they should say, that the holy ghost was the captaine, guide & gouernour: and that they did set downe and decreed that which they write as he did indite it to them. For this maner of speeche is vsed commonly in the scripture: to giue the ministers the second place after that the name of God is once expressed. When it is said that the people beleeued God and his seruant Moses, faith is not rent in peeces, as if it did addict it self partly to God & partly to mortall man. What then? to wit, whereas the people had God for the sole author of their faith, they beleeued or gaue credence to his minister from whom he could not be separate. Neither could they otherwise beleeue god, then by beleeuing the doctrine set before thē by Moses: