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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.
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.
A Sermon made by M. John Calvin, upon the beginning of the Gospel according to S. John, in which the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ is excellently proved.
A Sermon made by M. Iohn Caluin, vpon the beginning of the Gospell according to S. Iohn, in which the diuinitie of our Lorde Iesus Christ is excellently prooued.
1 In the beginning was that word, and that word was with God, and that word was God. 2 This same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by it: and without it was nothing made of that which was made. 4 In it was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 And that light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
1 In the beginning was that worde, and that word was with God, and that word was God. 2 This same was in the beginning with God. 3 All thinges were made by it: and without it was nothing made of that which was made. 4 In it was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 And that light shineth in the darknesse, and the darknesse comprehended it not.
This word Gospel,1 signifieth the declaration that God hath showed us, of his love in our Lord Jesus Christ, when he sent him into the world: which thing we ought well to mark, because it is very much to know the use of the holy Scripture, even in respect of the words it useth. It is true that we ought not to stand simply or only upon the words: and yet for all that we are not able to comprehend how excellent Gods doctrine is, unless we know the proceeding that it useth, and also what is the style and speech thereof. And indeed we are so much the more to mark and weigh this word, because it is a very common received sentence to distinguish the holy Scripture into the law and the Gospel: and those that speak thereof in that sort, mean,