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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.
they were also very well assured that God would be their father, but yet they had not (in such plain sort as we have) the gage and pledge of Gods love towards them, & of their own adoption. For when Jesus Christ came into the world, then God signed and sealed his fatherly love unto us, and we had the full testimony of life, and in deed have also the substance thereof in Jesus Christ, as I have already said.1 And this is the cause why S. Paul sayeth, That all Gods promises are in him, yea and Amen: to wit, because then God ratified and confirmed all that which he had spoken before, and had promised to men. So then it is not without cause that these four histories (wherein is declared unto us how the son of God was sent, that he took mans flesh, also that he lived here upon earth amongst men) have been so named. Men then have comprehended all this under the word Gospel, 2because therein it is declared and set out unto us, how God hath made perfect and accomplished all that which was requisite for mens salvation, and that we have had the fulfilling of all, in the person of his son. Indeed S. Paul speaketh of his Gospel, but after what sort? It is not as though he had written an history of the Gospel, but because his doctrine was conformable & agreeable, to all that which is contained therein. So according to that which I have already said, when ⟨p. 2⟩the Gospel was preached unto us,3 it is a plain manifesting of Jesus Christ to the end that we should know that in him all things are perfected, and that we have the trueth of that, which had been promised in all times before. And yet for all this, S. Pauls Epistles, are not called the Gospel. And why so? because that therein we have not a continual history which declareth unto us after what sort God sent his son, how it pleased him that in putting upon him our nature, he might have a true brotherhood with us, how he died, rose again, and ascended into heaven. This I say, is not largely laid out, with a continual order & course of speech in S. Paul, very certain is it, that the doctrine which is contained in his Epistles, is conformable and agreeable with the doctrine of the Gospel: But for all that, that word Gospel, is specially attributed to these four histories, for the reason which I have already alleged.