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…

For every man will frame unto himself, some masking mawmetry at his pleasure, so that all the religions of Popery, is so many blasphemies, to make this saying of our Lord Jesus Christ of none effect, All is finished, What shall we then do? Let us understand that there is not a drop of virtue nor merit in us, without we come unto this fountain, wherein is all ⟨p. 75⟩fullness. And thus we see that our faith must be settled in our Lord Jesus Christ.

For euery man will frame vnto himselfe, some masking mawmetrie at his pleasure, so that all the religions of Popery, is so many blasphemies, to make this saying of our Lord Iesus Christe of none effect, All is finished, What shall wée then doe? Let vs vnderstande that there is not a droppe of vertue nor merite in vs, without wée come vnto this fountaine, wherein is all ⟨p. 75⟩fulnesse. And thus we sée that our faith must be setled in our Lord Iesus Christe.

Moreover, let us chiefly understand, that when he offered himself for a Sacrifice, that it was for the pardoning of us for ever, and as the Scripture saith, to sanctify us perpetually. And therefore let us look for none other sacrifice but him. In very deed this abominable devilish Mass, is called in Popery, a daily sacrifice: & they say,¹ that Jesus Christ was once for all offered for a Sacrifice for the obtaining of the forgiveness of our sins, yet nevertheless that he must be daily offered up: which is manifest blasphemy, because they falsely take upon them the office which was appointed to our Lord Jesus Christ, whenas he was ordained to be the only everlasting Priest, yea, and God bound it with an oath, that his Priesthood should last for ever. And therefore, when mortal men will thrust in themselves to come before God, & offer up Jesus Christ, do they not rob him of the honour which he reserved unto himself alone, and which may not be given to any other creature? Since then it is so, we see that these miserable blind souls, thinking to make peace with God, provoke his wrath and vengeance, denying the death & passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, And therefore ought we, so much the more magnify the grace of God, for that he hath drawn us out of such a bottomless depth, that when we thought to have come near him, we set our selves openly against him: For we rob him of the benefit of his death and passion, when we seek after any other Sacrifice then that which he offered in his own person. Now it is said, That he cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up the Ghost: and this was it, Into thy hands I commit my soul or my spirit. And herein we see that our Lord Jesus so fought against the sorrows of death, as that he became afterward a Conqueror, and triumphed, because he had overcome the hardest matter of all. And this is the thing which belongeth to us, to wit, we must apply it unto our own use. For we are assured that the son of God did not only fight for us, but also that the victory which he obtained for us appertaineth unto us, and that we should not at this day be afeard of death, because we know that the curse of God which was so terrible, is abolished, and that death in stead that it might have deadly wounded us, serveth us now for a medicine, to yield