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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 sixth Sermon of the Prophecy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The sixt Sermon of the Prophesie of our Lord Iesus Christ.
Isaiah. Liii. 11 HE shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many: for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah. Liii. 11 HE shall see of the trauaile of his soule, and shall bee satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their iniquities.
Although the Prophet, for a confirmation of that which he hath already said, bringeth in this sentence: to wit, that the death of the Son of God should not be unprofitable, but should yield a most excellent fruit for the salvation of the world: yet doeth he more lively set it forth then heretofore he hath done: For, in the first place, he showeth unto us the love which Jesus Christ bear us, saying, That he shall be satisfied, by reason he had purchased for us, by his death, everlasting life: and besides, he showeth in the second place, that he shall not suffer only in his body, but in his soul also. Now, we know that this saying, to be Satisfied, or to be Contented, importeth or carieth with it, a great desire. For, many things shall come to pass, which shall touch us no whit, and we overslip them: yea, and although they be for our commodity, yet is not for us to say, that we altogether rest in them. And a man may have a great number of things, and yet not be contented: For it is possible that he hath not the principal, or else that he hath not the whole: But the Prophet showeth that the Son of God shall be throughly satisfied, never respecting him self, when as he shall see that he hath gotten unto him his Church, and that poor sinners shall be delivered from the curse wherein they were, and so be reconciled unto God, for the obtaining