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…

but we shall think that because we were thus accursed, and had no remedy to find favour at the hands of GOD, since we had so provoked him to be our enemy, it could not be chosen but that we must needs be eftsoons subject to Satan & unto his tyranny, until such time as Jesus Christ had delivered & quited us of them, Thus we see how we should begin ⟨image 112⟩to magnify the infinite goodness of this our God, which is an abhorring our sins, and by being a shamed of them as much as is possible. We also see how this imaginative offence and fond device of the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, shall be blotted out, to wit when we shall enter into the consideration of our selves, and truly try our sins, and acknowledge that we are so detestable unto God, as that he him self must needs come in the person of his son to make satisfaction for them, & to repair our iniquities, to the end we might be reconciled unto him. And this is here the order of the Prophet On the one side he sayeth, that Jesus Christ shall have nether form nor fashion, and that nothing shall be found in him worthy to be desired. And that which is more, to see him a far of, would make a mans hart yarn. Howbeit, when he had said all this, he addeth, Now, it was for our sins, that he was afflicted. As if he had said, Ah miserable blind souls, you make no reckoning of the son of God: yea and every of you through your unthankfulness shutteth the gate so hard upon him-as that you are no way able to come near him, to obtain the salvation which he bringeth you. And what should be the cause? truly, for that you have not known your sins, that you might be humbled, and because you are drowsy and blockish, and feed your selves with your vain flatteries: but look into your miseries & corruptions, and then will you be ashamed of your state & condition, & acknowledge that you have none other mean, but Jesus Christ alone to be your mediator, who taketh upon his own person, the thing which made you the enemies of God, who becometh your pledge, & maketh him self as a poor sinner, to lay upon his own shoulders the burden of your sins. Now, when you shall think upon all these things, then will you find some good savour to submit your selves unto the son of God:

but wee shall thinke that because wée were thus accursed, and had no remedie to find fauour at the handes of GOD, since we had so prouoked him to bée our enimie, it could not bée chosen but that wee must néeds bée eftsoones subiect to Satā & vnto his tiranny, vntil such time as Iesus Christ had deliuered & quited vs of thē, Thus we sée how we should begin