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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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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 therefore, vinegar & gall was given him, that it might be known that David was but a figure of him in deed, & that he was the true Redeemer, promised from the beginning. For, why was the kingdom advanced in the house of David, except it had been promised that it should longer continue, then the Sun and Moon? And therefore it was the everlasting kingdom, which was established in the person of the Redeemer. For it was meet, that these things which were shadowed and figured in the person of David, should be made perfect in Jesus Christ, as here we see. Moreover, as for that which the Evangelist speaketh of, for the thieves that were with our Lord Jesus Christ, who mocked him, that is set down as a thing by it self:1 as appeareth by S. Luke, who hath declared these things more at large. Howbeit, this is a common manner of speech: as if a man should say, This is spoken as if it were to young children, for if there were but one, yet it would be taken in the plural number. It was meet also that there should be some women amongst. And yet there was but one. And therefore, after this manner it is said, that all men set themselves against him, & mocked & blasphemed him, even the thieves themselves. For when a man is hanged between two thieves, it is to the end, the more to aggravate this shameful death. In deed, this was the place, where they were wonted to execute malefactors. And yet they were not contented that they had put him to this foil: But it must needs be, that he must be esteemed to be ⟨p. 66⟩worse then the arrantest and strongest thieves of the world, when as they were both hanged, one each side one, to the end it might be said, that he was the master thief amongst them all. And herein (as S. Mark saith) the saying of the Prophet was verified,2 that he was accounted amongst the wicked. Now, and if he had not been thus accounted of, in what case should we at this day stand before the Lord? For we could not obtain grace without justice. It is meet that God should hate & reject us, until such time as we were made righteous, and cleansed of all our sins and offences in his sight. And that it might be so, could God deny himself? Could he be robbed of his holiness, righteousness, & purity? And therefore when soever we shall come before him all filthy and besmeared, he must needs abhor us.