A17643:748
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.
Whereby we gather that the testimony of the Prophet is fitly applied unto the present cause. Wherein, God, after ⟨p. 130⟩he hath matched the Jews with the Gentiles, pronounceth that he will gather a Church of them both, that they which were no people might begin to be.
Whereby wee gather that the testimonie of the Prophete is fitly applyed vnto the present cause. Wherein, God, after ⟨p. 130⟩hee hath matched the Iewes with the Gentiles, pronounceth that hee will gather a Church of them both, that they whiche were no people might beginne to bee.
I will call them my people which is not my people. This is said in respect of the divorcement, which GOD had now made with the people, depriving them of all dignity, that they should not excel the foreign nations. And although they whom God hath ordained for sons unto himself, in his eternal counsel, these are, and are for ever, sons: yet the scripture many times reckoneth not among the sons of God, but whose election is confirmed by calling, Whereby also he teacheth us not to judge, and much less to denounce of the election of GOD,1 but so far forth as it manifesteth it self by his tokens. So likewise after that Paul had showed unto the Ephesians, that their election and adoption was determined with God before the creation of the world, a little after, he testifieth they were sometime strangers from GOD: Namely, according to that time, wherein the Lord had not yet declared his love towards them: although he had embraced them with eternal mercy. Therefore in this place they are called, not beloved, to whom the Lord rather testifieth his wrath then love. Finally, until adoption reconcile men unto God, we know his wrath lieth upon all mankind: the feminine gender of the participle, dependeth upon the text of the Prophet. For he had said that a daughter was borne unto him, whom he called not beloved: that under this type, the people might know they were hated of God. Now as rejection was the cause of hatred, so the Prophet teacheth that the beginning of love is, when God doth adopt them, who for a time were foreigners.