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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
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.
Whereas the demand is made of particular men, how any may be cut off from the grafting, and how after the cutting off he may be grafted in again: set before thee a threefold form of grafting,1 and a twofold form of cutting off. For the children of the faithful are grafted in, to whom the promise is due by the covenant made with their fathers: secondly they are also grafted in, who conceive the seed of the gospel in them, but which either taketh no root or else is choked ⟨p. 155⟩before it come unto fruit: thirdly the elect are grafted in, namely who are illuminated by the immutable purpose of GOD unto eternal life.
Whereas the demaunde is made of particuler men, howe any may be cut off from the grafting, and howe after the cutting off he may be graffed in agayne: set before thee a threefolde forme of graffing,1 and a twofolde forme of cutting off. For the children of the faithfull are graffed in, to whome the promise is due by the couenant made with their fathers: secondly they are also graffed in, who conceiue the seede of the gospel in them, but which either taketh no roote or els is choked ⟨p. 155⟩before it come vnto fruite: thirdly the elect are graffed in, namely who are illuminated by the immutable purpose of GOD vnto eternall life.
- 1A threefold for me of grafting, and a twofold form of cutting off to be considered.A threefolde for me of grafting, and a twofolde forme of cutting off to be considered.
The first sort are cut off, when they refuse the promise given to their fathers, or else do not receive it, through their unthankfulness. The second, When the seed of the Gospel withereth and is corrupted in them. The peril of which evil seeing it hangeth over all men, in respect of their nature: we must confess that this admonition which Paul useth, doth in some sort appertain unto the faithful, least they should cocker them selves in slothfulness of the flesh. But concerning the present place, it ought to suffice us, that the same punishment which God executed upon the Jews, is denounced against the Gentiles, if they shall become like unto them.