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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans
A commentary upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans, written in Latin by M. John Calvin, and newly translated into English by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessary table for the better and more ready finding out of certain principal matters contained in this workA commentarie vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes, written in Latine by M. Iohn Caluin, and newely translated into Englishe by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessarie table for the better and more readie finding out of certayne principall matters conteyned in this worke
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison and George Bishop, 1583London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1583
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now verily let the Readers mark here, that the spirit is indifferently sometime called the spirit of God the father, sometime of Christ: not only because all the fullness thereof is shed upon Christ,1 as he is our mediator and head, that from thence might redound to every one of us his portion: but also because the same spirit is common to the father and the Son, who have one essence, add the same eternal deity. Yet because we have no communication with God, but through Christ, the Apostle very wisely descendeth from the father (who seemeth to be further of) unto Christ.
Nowe verily let the Readers marke heere, that the spirite is indifferently sometime called the spirite of God the father, somtime of Christe: not onely because all the fulnesse thereof is shed vpon Christe,1 as hee is our mediatour and head, that from thence might redownde to euery one of vs his portion: but also because the same spirite is common to the father and the sonne, who haue one essence, add the same eternall dietie. Yet because wee haue no communication with God, but through Christe, the Apostle very wisely descendeth from the father (who seemeth to be further of) vnto Christe.
- 1How the spirit of God is also called the spirit of Christ.How the spirite of God is also called the spirite of Christe.
10 And if Christ be in you. That which before he said of the spirit, now he saith of Christ: whereby is declared the manner of Christs dwelling in us. For as by his spirit he consecrateth us for temples to himself, so by the same spirit he dwelleth in us: and now he doth more clearly open that, which we touched before:1 namely, that the sons of God are counted spiritual, not in respect of a full and absolute perfection, but only for the newness of life is begun in them. And here is a preoccupation, whereby he preventeth that doubt, which might otherwise vex us. For howsoever the spirit possesseth one part of us, yet we see another part to be holden still of death. Therefore he answereth, that in the spirit of Christ there is a virtue of quickening, which is of power to swallow up our mortality. Whereupon he inferreth, how we are patiently to expect, till the relics of sin be utterly abolished. Furthermore, the Readers have bin already admonished, that by the word spirit they understand