A17690:87
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.
So then, we have to observe in this text which we have read, that when our Lord Jesus was come into this village of Gethsemane, & namely, into the Mount Olivet, it was to offer him self willingly to death. And herein, his will was to be discharged of the office & charge that was committed unto him. For why clothed he him self with our flesh & nature, without it were to repair all our rebellions through his obedience, to the end to purchase us full & perfect righteousness before God his Father? And therefore offered he him self to death, because we might not be reconciled by any other mean, neither yet appease the wrath of God, provoked by sin, but by this only obedience. Thus we see why the Son of God came freely unto the place, where he knew that Judas should find him. And let us know that it so fell out, because our father Adam through his transgression, had thrown us all down headlong into the bottomless depth, that the son of God who had power ⟨image 28⟩over all creatures, might be subject, and take upon him the state of a servant: as he is likewise called the servant of God, & of all his. See also why S. Paul,1 in showing us how we must stay our selves when we call upon God with full assurance, & be heard as his children, saith that we are reputed righteous through the obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ.2 For this is as it were a cloak to cover all our sins & offences: so that the thing that might hinder us for the obtaining of grace, might not come into a reckoning before God. But we on the contrary part see, that the price of our redemption cost very dear, when as our Lord Jesus Christ was so tormented that he abode the very terror & fear of death: insomuch that he sweat drops of blood, & was as it were like one besides himself, desiring if it were possible that he might escape that distress. And therefore since we see it to be thus, it is good for us to come to the acknowledging of our sins. For, it is no time for us to rock our selves here a sleep through flattery, when we see the Son of God plunged in this extremity, as though he were in the bottomless depths. Now if this only came to pass unto a just man, then ought we to be touched, insomuch as it fell out that a poor innocent suffered for our ransom, which thing came to pass to the Son of God.