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The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the first Epistle of Saint John, and…The comentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the first Epistle of Sainct Ihon, and…
The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the first Epistle of Saint John, and upon the Epistle of Jude wherein according to the truth of the words of the holy Ghost, he most excellently openeth and cleareth the point of true justification with God, and sanctification by the Spirit of Christ, by the effects that he bringeth forth in the regeneration. Translated into English by W.H.The comentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the first Epistle of Sainct Ihon, and vpon the Epistle of Iude wherein accordyng to the truthe of the woordes of the holie Ghost, he most excellently openeth and cleareth the poinct of true iustification with God, and sanctification by the Spirit of Christ, by the effects that he bryngeth forthe in the regeneration. Translated into Englishe by W.H.
London: printed by John Kyngstone and T. East for John Harrison the younger, 1580London: printed by Ihon Kyngstone and T. East for Iohn Harrison the yonger, 1580
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2 We are now the sons of God. Now he descendeth to every ones proper feeling. For albeit the wicked do not entice us to cast away our hope, yet our present estate is far from the glory of the children of God. For in respect of the body we are dust, & a thing of nothing: death is ever before our eyes, & we are in danger of many miseries, & the soul is subject to infinite evils: so that we always find hell in our selves. How much more need is there that all our senses be drawn from the beholding of things present, least the miseries wherewith we are compassed, doeth drive us out of the hope of the happiness that yet appeareth not. For this is ⟨image 61⟩the Apostles counsel, that we shall do foolishly, if we measure what God hath given unto us, by our present condition, but that we must hold fast by an assured faith, that which yet appeareth not.
2 We are now the sonnes of God. Now he descendeth to euery ones proper feeling. For albeit the wicked doe not intice vs to cast away our hope, yet our present estate is far frō ye glory of ye childrē of God. For in respect of ye body we are dust, & a thing of nothing: death is euer before our eies, & we are in danger of many miseries, & the soule is subiect to infinit euils: so yt we alwaies find hel in our selues. How much more néed is ther yt al our sences be drawen frō ye beholding of things present, least the miseries wherwith we are compassed, doeth driue vs out of the hope of ye happinesse that yet appeareth not. For this is ⟨image 61⟩the Apostles counsell, that wée shall doe foolishlye, if we measure what God hath giuen vnto vs, by our present condition, but that we must holde fast by an assured faith, yt which yet appeareth not.
And we know that when we shall be made manifest. This condition must be changed into an Adverb of time where, or when. Further this word shall appear, is taken otherwise then before. The Apostle said a little before, that it appeareth not yet what we shall be, since the fruit of our adoption is hid: because our felicity is in heaven, and we are strangers far from thence in the earth, & because this frail life that is subject to an hundred deaths, is far unlike to that eternal glory which belongeth to the children of God: because being shut up after a slavish manner in the prison of flesh, we are far distant from the free dominion of heaven and earth. But now he referreth this note to Christ, When he shall appear. For he teacheth the same thing that Paul doeth unto the Collos. chapter. 3. verse. 3. where he saith, Your life is hid with Christ: but when Christ which is your life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. And indeed our faith can no other way remain