A17690:543
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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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.
Besides, when he said unto them, Ye shall receive power after the holy Ghost is come upon you: Hereby he showed them, that they were fools to aspire so high, as to enquire and seek after the secretes of God: For they were not able to attain thereto, until they had received this power from above. In deed, they had received some portion of the holy Ghost: but he told them that it was very needful the same should be increased in them: and that it was then, no time to triumph, but to fight: and they might see also, that it was not long before it should come to pass. And afterward he said, Ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, in all Jewry, and in Samaria, and even unto the worlds end: As if he should have said, you think that I should reign like a worldly Prince, but you are deceived, for my kingdom is spiritual.
Besides, when hee saide vnto them, Yee shall receiue power after the holy Ghost is come vpon you: Héereby hée shewed them, that they were fooles to aspire so high, as to enquire and seeke after the secretes of God: For they were not able to attaine thereto, vntill they had receiued this power from aboue. In déede, they had receiued some portion of the holie Ghost: but hee tolde them that it was verie néedfull the same should be encreased in them: and that it was then, no time to tryumph, but to fight: and they might sée also, that it was not long before it should come to passe. And afterwarde hée saide, Yee shall be witnesses vnto mee, both in Ierusalem, in all Iewrie, and in Samaria, and euen vnto the worldes ende: As if hée shoulde haue saide, you thinke that I shoulde reigne lyke a worldly Prince, but you are deceiued, for my kingdome is spirituall.
And thus he correcteth their last error, touching their question of the kingdom of Israel, by saying, that the Gospel must be conveyed even to Samaria: For there was great enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans, albeit they were near neighbours, ⟨p. 161⟩and agreed so me what in the principles of religion, as we and the Papists do at this day: For there is a kind of familiarity between us, because we have the Gospel, and they also say, that they have it. The Samaritans likewise had the same law, with the Jews, but they had altogether perverted it, even as the Papists now do: and therefore the hatred was the greater between them.