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 did not only suffer death, that we might be freed from it, But also that we at this day might have peace of conscience, and be glad in that we feel the fatherly love of our God, and so may be bold to call upon him with open mouth, being assured that he will receive us, & that we shall be acceptable unto him. And it was meet that Jesus Christ should be plunged in these horrors which he felt, it was also ⟨image 140⟩meet that he who was the immaculate Lamb of God, should be made like unto a wretched malefactor, and that he who was the mirror & pattern of all holiness & perfection, should answer for us, and become our Borrow even to that very pinch, as if he should have been condemned unto the bottomless pit of hell. Moreover, he vanquished & overcame all these sorrows (as we have before said) but yet he wrestled stoutly against them first. Thus we see what the meaning of Isaiah is, when he saith, that Jesus Christ must see travels & griefs in his soul: howbeit we see that he was notwithstanding well contented and fully satisfied therewith, always provided that we might be redeemed by that mean. And therefore we may at this day be so much the more bold, knowing that if we have a true obedience of faith, whereby to receive the inestimable benefit which our Lord Jesus Christ hath obtained for us, we may feel that he suffered not all these torments for us, in vain. Wherefore, our unthankfulness shall be so much the more inexcusable, when as we come not unto him with such an earnest zeal, to enjoy this inestimable benefit whereinto he is entered, and whereof he hath in our behalf, taken possession, having told us that he hath reconciled us unto God his Father, who is ready to receive us as his children. Thus we see in sum, what we have to consider of in this place. Now, the Prophet goeth on farther, and saith, That by his knowledge, my righteous servant shall justify many. As for this word, Servant, we have before seen, that it is no whit derogatory from the majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ: For, although he was Lord over all Creatures, yet obtained he a new government in the person of a Mediator, and in our nature, according to that saying of Saint Paul to the Philippians, and as we have also seen partly heretofore:¹ for it was his meaning to become a servant, and to humble him self under that state and condition.

that hée did not onely suffer death, that we might be freed from it, But also that we at this day might haue peace of conscience, and be glad in that we féele the fatherly loue of our God, and so may be bolde to call vpon him with open mouth, being assured yt he will receiue vs, & that we shal be acceptable vnto him. And it was méet yt Iesus Christ should be plunged in these horrors which he felt, it was also