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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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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.
For is not this a good and holy thing, for a father to love his children? And yet for all that, this is sin in us: because there is not that order and moderation that is required in the same: for amongest all the virtues which we may have, GOD maketh us to see that there are vices in them, to the end our pride might the better be abated, and we might always have occasion to caste down our heads, and be ashamed, seeing our very goodness is corrupted through sin which dwelleth in us, and wherewith ⟨p. 24⟩we are filled, and full fraught.
For is not this a good and holie thing, for a father to loue his chilren? And yet for all that, this is sinne in vs: because there is not that order and moderation that is required in the same: for amongest all the vertues which wée may haue, GOD maketh vs to sée that there are vices in them, to the ende our pryde might the better bée abated, and wée might alwayes haue occasion to caste downe our heades, and bée ashamed, séeing our verie goodnesse is corrupted through sinne which dwelleth in vs, and wherewith ⟨p. 24⟩wée are filled, and full fraught.
Moreover, as for our Lord Jesus Christ (as I have already said) it is not for us to marvel (forasmuch as he was man) although his will differed from the will of God his Father: But yet we must not hereby judge that there was any sin and transgression in him. And (as we have before said) we herein especially see, the inestimable love he bear us, whenas he so greatly feared death, that yet of his own good will he submitted him self thereto. And besides, when as he neither withstood it, nor yet gainsaid the supping up of this drink wherein he felt no bitterness, what a thing was this for us to be in this manner redeemed? Howbeit this might seem to be a merry jest: nevertheless, when it so fell out that our Lord Jesus Christ had endured such anguishes, it was a sign that he so loved us, as that he forgot him self, and suffered the whole tempest to light upon his own head, that we might be delivered from the wrath of God. Now, there remaineth for us to note, when the Son of God was after this manner tormented, that it was not because he was to depart out of this life: For if there had been none other thing but the separation of the soul, from the body, together, with the torments which he was to suffer in his body, this had been no such affliction.