A17643:865
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.
14 Might save. 1Here note how the minister of the word is said in his manner to save those, whom he hath brought unto the obedience of faith. For the dispensation of our salvation must be so moderated, that we know all the virtue and efficacy thereof to be in God, and give unto him due praise: yet that we know also preaching is an instrument to bring to pass the salvation of the ⟨image 166⟩faithful: which although it can profit nothing without the spirit of God, yet the same spirit working inwardly it doeth mightily show forth his virtue.
14 Might saue. 1Here note how the minister of the worde is said in his manner to saue those, whom he hath brought vnto ye obedience of faith. For the dispensation of our saluation must be so moderated, that we know al the vertue and efficacie therof to be in God, and giue vnto him due praise: yet that we knowe also preaching is an instrument to bring to passe the saluation of the ⟨image 166⟩faithful: which although it can profite nothing without the spirit of God, yet the same spirite woorking inwardly it doeth mightily shew foorth his vertue.
- 1How the minister is said to save.How the minister is said to saue.
15 For if the rejection. Some do lewdly corrupt this place which many count to be obscure: in my judgement it ought to be so understood, that it is another argument taken from the comparing of the less and greater, to this sense, if the casting off of the Jews could do so much, that it should give cause to the reconciling of the gentiles: of how much more force shall their receiving be? Ought it not even to raise from the dead? For Paul persisteth still in this, that the gentiles have no cause of envy, as though, the Jews being received into favour, their estate should be the worse. He reasoneth therefore, that seeing God hath wonderfully brought life out of death, and darkness out of light, it is much more to be looked for, that the raising again of a people as it were clean dead, should quicken the gentiles. Neither letteth that which some allege, namely, that reconciliation differeth not from resurrection, as we do here understand resurrection, namely, whereby we are translated from the kingdom of death into the kingdom of life. For although the thing be one, yet there is less and more weight in the words, which sufficeth to the force of the argument.