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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.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 1Saint Matthew, and Saint Mark, recite the words of our Lord Jesus in the Syrian tongue, which is taken out of the Psalm. 22. Now the Evangelists do not so fully and wholly recite the words, as they are set down in the text of the Psalm: namely in this word, Eli, which is to say, My God, we see that Saint Mark sayeth, Eloe, But that was by reason of the corruption of the tongue, as heretofore we have noted: For, the Jews, when they returned from Babylon, had never so pure and sound a tongue, as they had before. Howbeit this complaint and cry is taken out of the twentieth and two Psalm, the first verse. And therefore GOD would namely have this to be recited in two languages, thereby to declare that it was a matter of great weight, which we ought very diligently to mark. And to say the trueth, except we would imagine (as many fantastical people do) that Jesus Christ spake after the judgement of men, and not after his own feeling and affection, it would make us all to wonder, that Jesus Christ complained, that God his Father had forsaken him. For it were too too blockish and foolish a thing, to say that our Lord Jesus Christ was not sore tormented and vexed in heart: but that he simply said, They think that I am forsaken. Now, this declareth, that they which seek after such glosses, are not only ignorant, but also very blockheads and dolts: and cease not besides, to bark and blaspheme, like Mastiff Curs, against the Majesty ⟨image 78⟩of God. And as many as thus say, without doubt, there is no more religion in them, then in dogs and brute beasts, for they know not how dearly the son of God paid for their salvation. And that which is worse, they mock them selves like villains as they are. Therefore we must absolutely conclude, that when our Lord Jesus was brought to this extremity, and torment, he cried out with a loud voice (yea like unto those which are in most terrible pangs) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And in deed, we have before said, that we had but a cold pull (as we say) by the story of his death, if we considered not of the obedience which he yielded unto God his Father. Thus we see what the principal point is, that we should look unto, when as we would be assured of our salvation:
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee?