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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.
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,1 hee then made an alteration in the worlde, and hath vsed as it were, a certaine kinde of foolishenesse to teache vs For, (as I haue saide) wée shoulde haue beene taught by the wonderfull wisedome of God, which appeared both in the heauens and in the earth vnto the whole worlde, but wee haue béen ouer blockishe théerein. And therefore God hath vsed a kinde of foolishnesse, when as he sent his onely sonne, who submitted himselfe to all our infirmities, whom the worlde refused, and being borne in a Stable, lead all the dayes of his life like a miserable poore handicraftes man: and at last, wée sée that all men set themselues against him: and so raged, as that they detested and hated him, and to make fewe wordes, and well crucified him.