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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.
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.
Now it is here said that our Lord Jes••, was […] to the place called Golgotha, to wit, a place of dead mens skulls▪ The Hebrew word, from whence this is derived, signify th• to roll or bowl: Howbeit they then used it so, because that whe• any carcass is through rotted and turned to dust, the head is then very dry, and like a round bowl: Wherefore they called the name of this place Golgotha, because that many malefactors […] there punished, & there their heads remained. And here we are to remember the saying of the Apostle in his Epistle to the Hebrews,1 That our Lord Jesus Christ was led out of the Town as the burnt offerings were wont to be, whose blood was carries into the Sanctuary for the wiping away of the sins of the people▪ Now, it was said, that that sacrifice was as a man w•••d say, accursed: and therefore it was meet it should be carried a great way of.
Now it is here said that our Lorde Ies••, was 〈…〉 to the place called Golgotha, to wit, a place of dead mens •kulles▪ The Hebrue woorde, from whence this is deriued, signifie th• to rowle or bowle: Howebeit they then vsed it so, because that whe• any carcase is through rotted and turned to dust, the head is then very drie, and like a round bowle: Wherefore they called the name of this place Golgotha, because that many malefactors 〈…〉 there punished, & there their heades remayned. And here we are to remember the saying of the Apostle in his Epistle to the Hebrues,1 That our Lorde Iesus Christ was led out of the Towne as the burnt offrings were woont to be, whose blood was carries into the Sanctuarie for the wyping away of the sinnes of the people Now, it was saide, that that sacrifice was as a man wd say, accursed: and therfore it was méete it should be carried a great way of.