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The sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the Epistle of S. Paul too the…The sermons of M. Iohn Caluin, vpon the Epistle of S. Paule too the…
The sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the Epistle of S. Paul too the Ephesians. Translated out of French into English by Arthur GoldingThe sermons of M. Iohn Caluin, vpon the Epistle of S. Paule too the Ephesians. Translated out of French into English by Arthur Golding
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Lucas Harison, 1577
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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.
but let her hold her to the condition that she is bound unto, and let her not ask why, nor wherefore God hath put her so in subjection, neither let her make her self glorious in setting up her bri•••es against God, for putting her so in subjection too her husband.
but let hir hold hir to the condition that shee is bound vntoo, and let hir not ask why, nor wherfore God hath put hir so in subiection, nother let hir make hir self glorious in setting vp hir bri•••es ageinst God, for putting hir so in subiection too hir husb•nd.
But now let us come too the second point, and speak yet more of the high mystery, which Saint Paul magnifieth so much here. It is (sayeth he) a great mystery, yea between Christ and his Church. By these words it is easy too discern, that Saint Paul meant not too call marriage or wedlock a Sacrament: for he expoundeth him […] afterward. And (as I told you) the only thing that is treated here, is the expressing of Gods inestimable goodness, insomuch that in stead of executing the office of a teacher, too show and declare how we be knit too our Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Paul him self […] is astonished, and as a man ravished into wonderment, confessing that the wan•eth fit and sufficient words to express well Gods grace, in vouchsafing too knit and unite us too his only Son. I have told you […] already, how we •ee […] of our Lord Jesus Christs […], and ⟨p. 303⟩how we be his flesh. It is not that we be taken out of his body, for we come of the linage of Adam: but because we live of his own substance,1 according too this saying, that his flesh is our meat, and his blood our drink, whereby he meaneth that we live in him, howbeit spiritually. In deed we have a common life both too talk and too walk with all men, which proceedeth not of the special grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. But yet the moving which we have common with the brute beasts proceedeth also of him, according as it is said, that he was the life of all things.