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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Now, mark why I say, perfectly, although in very deed he maketh us go on in some measure: but yet how ever it is, let not us leave to join our selves to him. And let us understand that he will not deceive us of our hope seeing he hath declared unto us, that he is our head, and we his members: and that if we suffer him to govern and guide us, we shall find him to be a good and sure guide: and the power of his holy Spirit to be infinite to defend us. In the first place then, when we come to this holy Table, Let us understand that it is a secrete, surpassing our capacities and therefore we must here give place unto faith. And let us know, that the thing which we cannot conceive and understand, is notwithstanding accomplished by the secret and invisible grace of the holy Ghost: for, see how we are made partakers of the body & blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Nowe, marke why I say, perfectly, although in very déede hée maketh vs go on in some measure: but yet how euer it is, let not vs leaue to ioyne our selues to him. And let vs vnderstand that hee will not deceiue vs of our hope séeing hee hath declared vnto vs, that hée is our head, and wée his members: and that if wée suffer him to gouerne and guide vs, wée shall finde him to bée a good and sure guide: and the power of his holy Spirite to bée infinite to defend vs. In the first place then, when wée come to this holy Table, Let vs vnderstand that it is a secrete, surpassing our capacities and therefore wee must héere giue place vnto faith. And let vs know, that the thing which wée cannot conceiue and vnderstand, is notwithstanding accomplished by the secret and inuisible grace of the holy Ghost: for, sée how we are made partakers of the body & blood of our Lord Iesus Christe.
Moreover, since he dwelleth in us, and that we are truly and in deed his body, let us not doubt, but that whatsoever Isaiah speaketh, of the graces of the holy Ghost, they belong and are proper unto us, In very deed, we receive not the holy Ghost perfectly:1 because there is a measure of the gift (according to the saying of Saint Paul) and we must increase in it more & more. Besides, it is not without cause that our Lord Jesus hath so distributed it to us by certain and sure portions and degrees: For, it is needful that his power should be made perfect in our weakness, to the end we might hang always upon him,