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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.
14 If by any means I might provoke them of my flesh, to follow, and might save some of them.
14 If by any meanes I might prouoke them of my flesh, to follow, and might saue some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them, be the reconciling of the world: what shall the receiving be, but life from the dead.
15 For if the casting away of them, be the reconciling of the worlde: what shall the receiuing bee, but life from the dead.
11 Have they stumbled? &c. Thou shalt trouble thy self greatly in this disputation, unless thou observe that the Apostle sometime speaketh of the whole nation of the Jews,1 sometime but of particular men. For thence cometh that diversity, that sometime he saith the Jews were banished from the kingdom of God, cut off from the tree, and by the judgement of GOD, thrown into destruction: other some time again he denieth them to be fallen from grace, but rather to abide in the possession of the covenant, and to have place in the Church of God. So then according to this distinction he speaketh now. For seeing the Jews for the most part did reject Christ, so that, that perversity did in a manner possess the whole nation, and there appeared but few amongest them of a better mind. He demandeth, whither the nation of the Jews had so stumbled, that it were for ever to be despaired of, neither were there any hope of repentance left. And here he worthily denieth the salvation of the Jews to be past hope, or that they are so cast off, of the Lord, that there is no restitution to be looked for, or that the covenant of grace is utterly extinguished, which God once made with them: seeing there remained alway in that nation, a blessed seed. That his meaning is thus to be understood it appeareth by this, namely, that before he joined most sure ruin unto excecation, & now maketh hope of rising again: