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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.
The fourth Sermon of the Prophecy of Christ.
The fourth Sermon of the Prophesie of Christe.
Isaiah. liii. 7 HE was oppressed and afflicted, yet did he not open his mouth: he is brought as a sheep to the slaughter, and as sheep before her shearer, is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken out from prison and from judgement, and who shall declare his age? for he was cut from out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he plagued.
Isaiah. liii. 7 HEE was oppressed and afflicted, yet did hee not open his mouth: hee is brought as a sheepe to the slaughter, and as sheepe before her sherer, is dumbe, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 Hee was taken out from pryson and from iudgement, and who shal declare his age? for he was cut frō out of the land of the liuing, for the transgression of my people was hee plagued.
When the Prophet had showed that every of us was to look into himself and unto his own sins, if we would receive any benefit by the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, he now saith, that he suffered not constrainedly, but willingly: for, if he had not done so, we should never have been justified, neither yet should any atonement have been made between God & us: to wit, if Jesus had not repaired our transgressions through his obedience. And therefore if the death of the son of God had been constrained, and that he had not submitted himself willingly, it had not been a Sacrifice to have blotted out our sins:1