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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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Wherefore it was behoveful they should be fashioned and framed from above, and that God should miraculously work in them far beyond mans reach and capacity.
Wherefore it was behoueful they should be fashioned and framed from aboue, and that God should miraculously worke in them far beyond mans reach and capacitie.
Now, as for the sound of a mighty wind or tempest, that, showed that the holy Ghost came not down upon the Apostles, to make them, only partakers of his graces, but also that the whole world should be shaken therewith: For it was so spoken of by the Prophet Haggai, in these words: After a while, saith the Lord,1 I will make heaven & earth tremble. Which was in deed fulfilled, in the preaching of the Gospel. We see then, that when the holy Ghost descended, that it was not only for a handful of men, but he came down to fill all the ends and borders of the world: For otherwise, we should have had but a cold pull of it, as we say, if we were not throughly persuaded that God all at one time sent his holy Ghost for us also, for the establishing of our faith. Moreover, God could have sent the holy Ghost after a milder manner, if he had listed: But let us note, that this sudden violent wind was to abate the pride of the flesh: and again to waken us, because we are over slow and drowsy. Surely, there are two great faults in us, which hinder our feeling of the power of the spirit of God, for the submitting of our selves unto the Gospel. The one, is, That we are proud and very presumptuous. Now, all this must be pulled down, that both great and small of us might humbly learn, so to worship God, as to abase our selves altogether, and be contented to live by him and by his mere favour & grace. And therefore it is meet that this pride which is so deeply rooted in our nature, should be violently reformed: Because we are over much hardened therein. On the other side, every man feeleth such an heavy earthly burden in himself, as that our minds are altogether occupied & nursled in this world. ⟨image 179⟩