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…

little children, say they, receive the grace of God, and are pardoned of Original sin in baptism, by the power of the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: But say they, when we are once baptized & then sin Jesus Christ alone, is not sufficient to make us acceptable ⟨image 117⟩unto the Lord and to blot out the remembrance of our sins, but we our selves also must make recompense. And this is the cause of the devising of their works of supererogation: as to wander up & down like Rogues a Pilgrimage, to have many trentals of Masses, & such like devilish inventions. So, that if a man ask the Papists why the rogue up and down a pilgrimage as they do, to see their mowing apes and marmosets, why they fast such and such a day, why they build Churches, and why they cause masses to be song: forsooth will they say, even to redeem our selves before the Lord our God: for, it is very meet that when we have understood of our sins, that we should make satisfaction for them, to the end God might acquit & discharge us of the same. See here, how they make the death & passion of our lord Jesus Christ of none effect: & so the papists are not able to go on, one foot forward to do their devotions, but that they blaspheme God openly deny the death & passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, & cast themselves down into hell mouth: thus we see, whether their devilish devotions (which they call good) lead them. And therefore we are to observe the words of the Prophet when he saith, that the correction of our peace, was laid upon our Lord Jesus Christ, because that by his mean God is appeased & set at one with us for he beareth all the sins & iniquities of the world upon him. So then, let us here note, that when we see what manner ones we are, we should always stand in fear, because God is our enemy, & our judge. And besides, we must in the second place conclude, that there is no other mean either in heaven or yet in the earth to make us at one with God, but by the price which our lord Jesus hath paid & satisfied, even by his death & passion. Have we this? let us then with bold cheer, & countenance, come before our God: & yet not so but that we must always humble our selves, & be ashamed of our sins:

little children, say they, receiue the grace of God, and are pardoned of Originall sinne in baptisme, by the power of ye death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ: But say they, whē we are once baptized & then sin Iesus Christ alone, is not sufficiēt to make vs acceptable ⟨image 117⟩