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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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Here, he bringeth us yet once again back unto the consideration of the glory & excellency of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the end we might be so much the more assured that we may come unto him: for if he had removed in death as a vanquished person, it had been impossible for us to have been ever justified & quickened by his grace. For how could death a lone have brought righteousness & life with it, as of it self: but because of the sacrifice of his death he rose again, therein resteth our full & whole confidence. Thus we see that we have obtained victory over sin, to the end we might be taken to be righteous: & death is abolished in us, that ⟨image 135⟩we might have life: In deed, this in the first place, hath relation unto the person of the Son of God, For, as we have already said he dyed according to the infirmity of his flesh,1 howbeit, the heavenly power of his holy Spirit was showed in his resurrection: and hereof he gave this testimony, for these were his words, destroy ye this Temple, and within three days I will raise it up again.2 Lo here how the Son of God, as touching his person did see a great age: For he rose not again to show himself unto the world for a while, and then dye again: But after he had showed himself unto his Disciples, and made them witnesses of his resurrection, he ascended into heaven, and so exempted himself from all humane frailty. This then it is whereon we must build our faith in him, when as we see him to have in such sort overcome death, and the Devil, and triumphed over him, as that after that he was offered up for a Sacrifice, he was received and exalted unto this power and dignity, whereof mention hath already been made. But we must also note by the way, that all this belongeth to the whole body of the Church: for it is not the purpose of Jesus Christ to separate himself from it.3 And in deed it is further said, that he shall see his seed. True it is we are called the brethren of Jesus Christ: For we could not be called the children of god but by the same name. And therefore, he who is the only beloved must receive and join us so unto himself, as that we might have that by adoption, which is only his by nature howbeit, this is no let unto us from being as children engendered of his seed. For, what is the true seed of the Church?