A17643:871
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.
20 Well: through unbelief they are broken off, & thou standest by faith: be not high minded, but fear.
20 Well: through vnbeliefe they are broken off, & thou standest by faith: be not high minded, but feare.
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, least he also spare not thee.
21 For if God spared not the naturall branches, take heed, least he also spare not thee.
6 For if the first fruits. Now by comparing the dignity of the Jews with the Gentiles, he taketh from these, pride, and pleaseth or pacifieth those as much as he can. For he showeth how the gentiles do no way excel the Jews, if they pretend any prerogative of honour that is their own: yea if they did strive therein, they should be left far behind. In which comparison we must remember, that man is not compared with man, but nation with nation. Therefore if they be compared together between them selves, herein they shall be found like that they are both the sons of Adam: this only is the difference, that the Jews were separated from the gentiles, that they might be a peculiar people to the Lord. Therefore they were sanctified by the holy covenant, and adorned with peculiar honour, wherewithal the Lord did not vouchsafe the gentiles at the time: but because little virtue of the covenant appeared then, he biddeth us look unto Abraham and the Patriarchs, with whom assuredly the blessing of God was not in vain or void. He therefore gathereth, that hereditary holiness descended from them to all the posterity: which collection could not hold, if he spake of the persons only, and rather had not regard unto the promise. For it followeth not straightways because the father was just, therefore he passeth over his honesty into his son: but because the Lord sanctified to himself Abraham upon this condition, that his seed also should be holy: