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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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And therefore, let us learn too esteem of the Gospel a great deal more then heretofore we have done: and understand, that it is to this end too make us Partakers of the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. For we are engrafted into his body, & made his members, and all whatsoever ⟨p. 137⟩is his, is also ours, and that through the aptness of the Gospel: and for this cause it is, that Saint Paul saith,1 that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, to all that believe: showing hereby, that if we refuse to be saved by the Gospel, it is as much as if we rejected the salvation which God would obtain for us in the person of his Son, and whereunto he daily bideth and exhorteth us. And this is the sum and effect of that which we have here to observe.
And therefore, let vs learne too esteeme of the Gospell a greate deale more then heeretofore wee haue done: and vnderstande, that it is to this ende too make vs Partakers of the death and passion of our Lorde Iesus Christe. For wee are ingraffed into his bodie, & made his members, and al whatsoeuer ⟨p. 137⟩is his, is also ours, and that through the aptnesse of the Gospell: and for this cause it is, that Saint Paul saith,1 that the Gospell is the power of God vnto saluation, to all that beléeue: shewing héereby, that if we refuse to be saued by the Gospell, it is as much as if we reiected the saluation which God woulde obtaine for vs in the person of his Sonne, and wherunto hée dayly bideth and exhorteth vs. And this is the summe and effect of that which we haue héere to obserue.