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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermons on the passion › Sermon 2: The second Sermon of the Passion.
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.
It fell out, that Jesus Christ was tied and fast nailed (as hereafter we shall see) and must cease to be Lord over his enemies: For Satan had let go the reins to push them on into all fury and cruelty.1 And this is it whereof S. Luke speaketh. This is the power of darkness. But how ever it was, in thus saying, I am he, it so fell out that the enemies were confounded and ashamed. What will he then do, when he cometh in Majesty with all his Angels? When he shall make a footstool of all those that have resisted him? When he cometh with a terrible countenance, & incomprehensible wrath? According to the saying of Paul to the Thessalonians.2 How then shall the wicked and contemners of the Majesty of God, & of the word of our lord Jesus Christ stand before his face, when as he so overthrew his enemies, even then when he was ready to suffer, and use none other defence then the same, which God his Father used: for as he said, he could have called to have had a million of Angels to be sent ⟨image 41⟩him, but he would not, and yet his meaning was to show, that he could, if it pleased him, even with the breath of his mouth overthrow whatsoever stood against him. By this we have to learn, to fear the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: and although he is not here conversant amongst us, after a visible sort, nevertheless, since the Gospel is preached by his authority, & that he saith, he that heareth you,3 heareth me: Let us learn most reverently to receive whatsoever is preached in his name, & submit our selves thereto: and we shall find that this saying which thus made the soldiers, and those that were sent against him, too fall, must be our only foundation, & stay. For what is all our joy & comfort without the son of God, appeareth unto us, & that we see him nigh us, & showeth us what a one he is, & wherefore it was that God his Father sent him unto us? And so, let us understand, by this saying, I am he, That when it shall please our Lord Jesus Christ to manifest him self, as he doth to all his faithful, that he therein declareth unto us, why he calleth us unto him self, why he is come down unto us, & why he dwelleth in us, by the power of his holy spirit, and thus we see wherein all our felicity and quietness resteth.