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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
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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.
17 If we be sons, we are also heirs, even the heirs of God, and heirs annexed with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
17 If wee be sonnes, wee are also heires, euen the heires of God, and heires annexed with Christe, if so bee that wee suffer with him, that wee maye also bee glorified with him.
18 For I count the afflictions of this present time, not to be comparable to the glory to come, which shall be revealed unto us.
18 For I counte the afflictions of this presente time, not to bee comparable to the glory to come, which shall bee reuealed vnto vs.
Now he confirmeth that certainty of trust or confidence, wherein of late he bid the faithful stay themselves, and that by an argument taken from an especial effect of the spirit: because it is not therefore given us that it might toss us with trembling,1 or press us with anxiety: but rather that all perturbation being quenched, setting our minds in a quiet state, it might stir us unto assured and free invocation of God. So then he doth not only prosecute the argument he touched before, but also standeth more in that other member which he had annexed: namely, of the fatherly mercy of God, whereby he forgiveth his, the infirmity of the flesh, and those faults which yet remain in them. He teacheth that the confidence hereof is assured unto us by the spirit of adoption, which would not bid us be bold in prayer,2 except it assured us of free remission. And to the end he might yt rather set out yt matter, he setteth down a twofold spirit: one he calleth the spirit of bondage, which we may conceive by the law the other of adoption, which is by the gospel.