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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.
and so he refuteth the wicked doting of Seruetus, who feigned Christ to have flesh composed of three uncreated elements.
and so hee refuteth the wicked doting of Seruetus, who faigned Christe to haue fleshe composed of three vncreated elementes.
4 And declared to be the Son of God &c. Or if you had rather, determined or appointed: as if he should say, the virtue of his resurrection, was in stead of a decree,1 whereby he was denounced to be the Son of God: as it is said, this day have I begotten thee. For that same begetting is to be referred unto knowledge. And albeit some men make here three divers testimonies of Christs divinity, by power understanding miracles, secondly, the testimony of the spirit,2 lastly the resurrection of the dead: I had rather join them all together, and reduce all three unto one, after this manner, Christ is the determined or appointed Son of God, having openly declared a true celestial, and the very same power of the spirit, when he rose from the dead: but this power is comprehended, when it is sealed by the same spirit in our hearts. Unto which interpretation the phrase of the Apostle agreeth very well: for he saith he was declared in power, or mightily, because there appeared in him ⟨image 17⟩such power, as was proper unto God, and proved him most certainly to be God. This power appeared in his resurrection: as in another place the same Paul, after he hath acknowledged,3 that the infirmity of the flesh appeared in his death, commendeth the virtue of the spirit in his resurrection. Yet this glory is not known to us, until the same spirit seal it in our hearts. And that Paul together with that wonderful power of the spirit, which Christ showed forth in rising from the dead, doth also understand that testimony which every faithful man feeleth in his heart, may be seen by this, that he doth express sanctification by name: as if he should say, the spirit as it sanctifieth, doth establish and ratify that experiment of his power, which it once declared. For the Scripture useth often to adorn the spirit of God with such titles as may serve for the present purpose. So it is called of the Lord the spirit of trueth, of that effect,