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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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And that when he should be seen, no man should once vouchsafe to look on him: but that every man should turn away his face from him, and abhor him. We see now, that there are but a few which will believe the Gospel: for we seek continually to make a goodly outward show, and would gladly that all should be seen and come to light.
And that when he should be séene, no man shoulde once vouchsafe to looke on him: but that euery man shoulde turne away his face from him, and abhorre him. Wée see nowe, that there are but a fewe which will beléeue the Gospel: for wée séeke continually to make a goodly outwarde shew, and would gladly that all shoulde bée séene and come to light.
Now, the dealing of the Lord God was after another manner, when he meant to redeem us: For, (as Saint Paul saith) because the world would not benefit it self by the wisdom of God, whenas he in such sort showed himself the Creator, as that the very beholding of the heaven & the earth might have sufficiently made it to have come unto him,1 he then made an alteration in the world, and hath used as it were, a certain kind of foolishness to teach us For, (as I have said) we should have been taught by the wonderful wisdom of God, which appeared both in the heavens and in the earth unto the whole world, but we have been over blockish therein. And therefore God hath used a kind of foolishness, when as he sent his only son, who submitted himself to all our infirmities, whom the world refused, and being borne in a Stable, lead all the days of his life like a miserable poor handicrafts man: and at last, we see that all men set themselves against him: and so raged, as that they detested and hated him, and to make few words, and well crucified him.
Nowe, the dealing of the Lorde God was after another maner, when he ment to redéeme vs: For, (as Saint Paule saith) because the worlde woulde not benefite it selfe by the wisedome of God, whenas he in such sorte shewed himselfe the Creator, as that the very beholding of the heauen & the earth might haue sufficiently made it to haue come vnto him,