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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 8: The eight 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.
No, no, but when it came to that, that they must give their lives, it was God that stirred them thereto clean contrary to all worldly judgement. Here then we see, that God hath made a strange and wonderful alteration, in giving this boldness to Joseph and Nicodemus, that they feared not the rage of the people, when they came to bury our Lord Jesus Christ. Before time, Nicodemus came in the night for fear of being evil spoken of, and yet when it was grown even now to the worst,1 he burieth him. And therefore it cannot be chosen but that God gave him a new heart: for he came before closely, & there was no darkness dark enough, ⟨p. 79⟩considering his fearfulness and cowardice, if God had not corrected this fault in him. To be short we see, what good the death of our Lord Jesus Christ hath done, in that he then poured out the graces of his holy spirit, upon these wretched people, who never before durst declare their faith, nor yet render a reason thereof. Wherefore, they do not only confess it with their mouth, but that which they did, showeth that they had rather be accounted cursed before the world, then that they would not be the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, and so the thing which they had before obtained, to wit, the free salvation which was set before them. And here we also see, why it is namely said, that Joseph looked for the kingdom of God. Now by these words we are told that God hath forsaken us, and we are banished his kingdom, until such time as he gathereth us unto himself as his people, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, we see how miserable our estate is, until our Lord Jesus calleth us unto himself, to consecrate us unto God his father. And if this benefit be taken away from us, cursed and confounded are we.
No, no, but when it came to that, that they must giue theyr liues, it was God that stirred them therto cleane contrary to all worldly iudgement. Héere then we sée, that God hath made a straunge and wonderfull alteration, in geuing this bouldnesse to Ioseph and Nycodemus, that they feared not the rage of the people, when they came to bury our Lorde Iesus Christ. Before time, Nycodemus came in the night for feare of being euill spoken of, and yet when it was growne euen now to the worst,1 he burieth him. And therfore it cannot be chosen but that God gaue him a new harte: for he came before closely, & there was no darknesse dark ynough,