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The Institution of Christian Religion
The institution of Christian religion, written in Latin by master John Calvin, and translated into English according to the authors last edition. Seen and allowed according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctionsThe institution of Christian religion, vvrytten in Latine by maister Ihon Caluin, and translated into Englysh according to the authors last edition. Seen and allowed according to the order appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions
London: printed by Reinolde Wolfe & Richard Harison, 1561London: printed by Reinolde VVolfe & Richarde Harison, 1561
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 the Scripture it self, when it speaketh of him, forbeareth not §15the name of God. For Paul hereby gathereth that we are the temple of God,1 because his spirit dwelleth in us: which thing is not lightly to be passed over. For whereas God so often promiseth that he will chose us for a temple to himself, that promise is no other way fulfilled, but by his spirit dwelling in us. Surely, as Augustine very well sayeth: if we ⟨image 45⟩were commanded to make unto the Holy ghost a temple of timber and stone,2 because such worship is due to God only, it were a clear argument that he is God: now therefore how much clearer is this, that we ought, not to make a temple, but our selves to be a temple for him? And the Apostle himself calleth us sometime the temple of God, sometime the temple of the Holy ghost, both in one meaning. And Peter reprehē ding Ananias for that he had lied to the Holy ghost,3 said that he lied not unto men but unto God. And where Isaiah bringeth in the Lord of hosts speaking, Paul teacheth that it is the Holy ghost that speaketh. Yea where commonly the Prophets say, that the words which they utter are the words of the Lord of hosts, Christ and the Apostles do refer them to the Holy ghost. Whereby it followeth that he is the true Jehovah that is the chief author of prophecies. Again where God complaineth that he was provoked to wrath by the stubbornness of his people, in stead of that Isaiah saith that his holy Spirit was grieved.4 Last of all, if blasphemy against the Holy ghost be not forgiven in this world nor in the world to come, whereas he may obtain pardon that hath blasphemed against the son: his divine majesty is here plainly proved, the offence or diminishment whereof is an unpardonable crime. I do wittingly and of purpose omit many testimonies that the ancient writers have used.5 They have thought it a marvellous mete place to allege out of David: with the word of the Lord the heavens were stablished, and all the power of them with the spirit of his mouth, to prove that the world was no less the work of the Holy ghost than of the Sonne. But forasmuch as it is commonly used in the Psalms to repeat one thing twice: