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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.
In very deed, the sacrifice which he offered, is our full hope and assurance: to wit, we must not presume to add any thing unto our Lord Jesus Christ: because he hath purchased full salvation, by his sacrificing of him self unto God his father: but by the way, it is meet that we should be threatened by the judgements of God, to the end we might understand, how grievous a thing it is, that we being poor worms of the earth, should lift our selves up against the majesty of our creator, and violate his justice, considering that we are placed here in this world to serve and honour him. And therefore let us have a lively feeling of this, that we might come unto our Lord Jesus Christ.
In very déede, the sacrifice which he offered, is our full hope and assuraunce: to wit, we must not presume to adde any thing vnto our Lorde Iesus Christ: because he hath purchased ful saluation, by his sacrificing of him selfe vnto God his father: but by the way, it is méete that wée shoulde be threatned by the iudgements of God, to the ende we might vnderstand, how gréeuos a thing it is, that wée béeing poore wormes of the earth, should lift our selues vp against the maiestie of our creator, and violate his iustice, considering that we are placed héere in this world to serue and honor him. And therfore let vs haue a liuely féeling of this, that wee might come vnto our Lord Iesus Christ.
Now it should seem here at the first sight that the Prophet had set down a strange reason, when he saith, because he was cut of from the land of the living. For, inasmuch as Jesus Christ was exalted, and hath now the rule both in heaven and in earth, it should seem that this was no fit mean, without he had first been as one cut of: For this glory, wherein now he is, he always had,1 before the world was made according to the saying of S. John. And therefore ⟨image 128⟩Jesus Christ as touching his divine essence or being, obtained unto himself no strange thing.