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Divers sermons of Master John Calvin, concerning the divinity, humanity, and nativity of our…Diuers sermons of Master Iohn Caluin, concerning the diuinitie, humanitie, and natiuitie of our…
Divers sermons of Master John Calvin, concerning the divinity, humanity, and nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ as also touching his passion, death, resurrection, ascension: together with the coming down of the holy Ghost upon his Apostles: and the first sermon of S. Peter. The order of which you shall find in the page ensuing.Diuers sermons of Master Iohn Caluin, concerning the diuinitie, humanitie, and natiuitie of our Lorde Iesus Christe as also touching his passion, death, resurection, ascention: togeather with the comming downe of the holy Ghoste vpon his Apostles: and the first sermon of S. Peter. The order of which you shall finde in the page ensuing.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for George Byshop, 1581
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Sermons on the passion › Sermon 2: The second Sermon of the Passion.
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1Let us therefore be well advised how we suffer Satan to have any such entrance into us, least he clean put out our eyes, when as we shall lye sleeping in our sins: and think by such means to escape the hand of God:2 and let us put far from us this hypocrisy. And besides, let us know, that we are commanded to kiss the Son of God: But to this end, to reverence him as our King, and as the sovereign Lord over all creatures. For this saying, to kiss, importeth nothing else, but a reverence, and solemn protestation that we are his: as he sayeth: ye call me Master, and therein you do well. But let us, when we come unto him, be well advised, not to call him Master at the tongues end, and in the mean while are no better then his enemies: and make an hypocritical kind of reverence,3 and kick against him ⟨p. 34⟩with the heel: That is to say, Let us not become like Rebels, and disloyal Rogues, but show our selves to have sought none other means then to keep us within his Church, to the end we might serve our God. Let us then take heed unto all this. Moreover, although the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, did not at the first, show their effect in Judas, yet in the end, by the virtue of the same words, yet it fell out that he hung him self,4 without looking for any other condemnation. And in very deed S. John telleth us how our Lord Jesus Christ hath thundered, although he useth but few words, against them who came to seek him, saying, I am he. Behold, what a band Pilate the Governor of the country sent: and what a number of people the Priests had gotten together, and sent them out furnished with Clubs, swords, and staves: and Jesus Christ is him self alone:5 and (as Isaiah sayeth of him) like a Lamb brought to the shambles. And what were the words he spake: forsooth even this, I am he. And by and by they all went back, and fell forthwith to the ground. Whereupon came this falling? Herein we see, that although our Lord Jesus Christ humbled him self for a time, yea and was made of no reputation, yet kept he with him, when he thought good, his heavenly power, that he might throw down headlong all his enemies, whensoever it pleased him. Let us now compare our time, with the time that was then.