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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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Now, when we are thus humbled, then may we come to our Lord Jesus Christ, Because we know that it is he that speaketh for us, & that by him also we may boldly call our selves the children of God. For when we come to pray, & say, O our father which art in heaven: we must needs acknowledge that our mouths, as concerning our selves, are filthy, & therefore not worthy once to call God, our Creator, & it is so far of in deed, as that we ought not to be so presumptuous as to take our selves for his children. And yet our Lord Jesus Christ speaketh for us,1 & so by his mean our prayers & supplications are sanctified: For so it is said in the Epistle to the Hebrews, That by him it is by whom we render unto god the sacrifice of praise, & all our prayers, and that he is our mediator, in whose name at this day, we call upon ⟨p. 144⟩God our Father. And therefore we may boldly glorify our selves in that he will take us for his children. We see then how we are to put this place in practise. Now we see that our Lord Jesus Christ hath verified this, when he prayed for his, as appeareth in the Gospel after S. John, Look unto them,2 holy Father which thou hast given me: for now I go out of the world. Those that thou gavest me I have kept, & none of them is lost, but the lost child: but those whom thou gavest me in charge, have I kept. Now I pray for them, & not only for them, but also for all those which shall believe on me through their preaching, I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me, that thou wouldest bless & sanctify them, that they might also be one as we are. When then we see the son of God pray: and see him also, who is God eternal, so to abase himself, as to become a petitioner, and offer up his supplication unto God his father in our name: should not we here acknowledge an infinite goodness? And we are in the first place always to consider of that which hath gone before: to wit, that we shall do nothing else but profane the name of God with calling upon him, if we do it not in the name of Jesus Christ, And why so? Forsooth, because our mouths are filthy & unclean: yea & we our selves full of corruption: & no better then stinking worms: but because our Lord Jesus Christ abased himself even unto the state of a Beggar, & to become a petitioner unto god his father for us: