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…

that he who is the fountain of all righteousness, was made sin: that he who is blessed, & sanctifieth all things, yea even the very Angels of heaven, became accursed. Now, when we hear all these things spoken of, and see them to be very strange, yet have we not the wit and understanding, ⟨image 134⟩to apply them to our edifying. For since the Son of God was brought to this point, is it possible for us to find any remedy else where? No surely: for we may soon judge, that neither men, Angels, nor nothing else whatsoever, was able to do us any good, but that we must needs have our help at the hands of the son of God. And therefore this Devil Seruetus (which was here executed) is so much the more accursed and damnable: because he hath falsified & stained the holy Bible, in saying that all this was prophesied of Cyrus an Heathen Idolater: and robbed our Lord Jesus Christ of the thing which so properly belonged unto him, as that when Isaiah had fastened this as it were unto a lively Table, that even then Jesus Christ was crucified, the things could not be made more manifest and plain. And yet this Devil brought with him such an horrible wickedness, as that he hath spoiled our Lord Jesus Christ both of his dignity and office, and saith, That it was an Heathen man that suffered for the people, whenas in deed what by reason of his ambition and covetousness he would needs shed the blood of a man, and therefore received his just reward for the same. Howbeit this is a fearful falsifying of this godly Prophecy, and to say truly, never man alive ever once thought of any such meaning, as this cursed fellow hath devised. For, although a great number of shameless Heretics have perverted the doctrine of the holy Scripture, yet never did any of them come thus far. And therefore, it cannot be chosen but that all the signs and tokens of a reprobate appeared in this cursed man. Wherefore, we are here so much the rather to note, that when the Prophet bringeth us back to the consideration of our Lord Jesus Christ, that (in the first place) it is to this end that we might be ashamed of our selves: and besides, that we might magnify the inestimable goodness of our God, because he would have his only Son to become sin for us:

that he who is the fountaine of all righteousnes, was made sinne: that hée who is blessed, & sanctifieth all things, yea euen the very Angels of heauen, became accursed. Nowe, when wée heare all these thinges spoken of, and sée them to bée very strange, yet haue wée not the wit and vnderstanding, ⟨image 134⟩