A17650:488
A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated…A commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated…
A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated out of FrenchA commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated out of French
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Johnson, 1605London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Iohnson, 1605
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.
And if they had been mindful, Vers. 15 &c.] He prevents an objection which might be made to the contrary: to wit, that they were therefore strangers, because they had left their country. The Apostle replies, surely, when they called themselves strangers, they thought not of Mesopotamia, for if they had been desirous thereof, it remained still in their power to have returned back again. But they banished ⟨p. 261⟩themselves from thence of their own accord: and which more is, they renounced it, as though it did nothing at all appertain unto them. They meant another country then, which was out of this world.
And if they had beene mindefull, Vers. 15 &c.] He preuents an obiection which might bee made to the contrarie: to wit, that they were therefore strangers, because they had left their country. The Apostle replies, surely, when they called themselues strangers, they thought not of Mesopotamia, for if they had beene desirous thereof, it remained still in their power to haue returned backe againe. But they banished ⟨p. 261⟩themselues from thence of their own accord: and which more is, they renounced it, as though it did nothing at all appertaine vnto them. They meant another countrie then, which was out of this world.
Wherefore God is not ashamed to call them, &c.] Vers. 16 He hath respect unto that sentence, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, Exod. 3.6. Truly it is no small honour, when God makes himself famous, as it were, with the names of men also when by this mark he will be discerned (as you would say) from Idols. The Apostle shows that this privilege was also founded upon faith, because that as the holy Fathers aspired unto the heavenly country; so God also for his part held them to be of the number of his citizens. But we must gather from hence that we have no place among the children of God, unless we renounce the world: