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…

And again, let us understand, that the same cannot be done but by the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that that is the thing whereupon we must wholly rest.

And agein, let vs vnderstand, that the same canno bee doone but by the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ, and that that is the thing wheruppon wee must wholly rest.

Hereupon S. Paul addeth, that all is done according too the richesse of Gods grace. No• without cause doth he here magnify Gods mercy which he uttereth in receiving us too favour. For we see on the one side how men do wilfully overshoot themselves through their foolish overweening: For most men have always imagined, that they might make their atonement with God by their own satisfactions, and I wot not what shifts besides. Seeing then that men are so far overseen in their own imaginations, S. Paul too exclude all such dealing, saith that we must be ravished in love with the richness of Gods goodness. He could have said simply that God doth all according too his grace: but he setteth down here his great treasures, too the intent that men should not be so fond, as too bring as it were but a farthing, for the discharge of ten hundred thousand crowns. And truly when the Papists prattle of their satisfactions, they say not that they be able too do it throughly ⟨image 41⟩in all points: but they are of opinion that with the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, they also are able too bring somewhat of their own, and too do so much by patches and pieces, that God shall be satisfied and contented. Thus ye see what a devilish opinion reigneth in papistry, for they will needs found masses, they will needs babble many prayers, they will needs gad on pilgrimage, they will needs keep this feast and that feast, they will needs perform I wot not what devotions, they will needs wear sack cloth next their skin: and all too help forth the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: as who should say, it were not sufficient enough of it self. But S. Paul telleth us that Gods goodness as it is showed us in Jesus Christ, is so great a treasure, that all other things must needs give over and be thrust under fote. And seeing that God useth so great bountifulness as we ought too be wholly ravished at it: is it not too outrageous a presumptuousness, when we will needs bring our own pelting trash, as though our going on pilgrimage, & our doing of some other devotions were of any value or estimation? Is it not all one, as though the blood of Jesus Christ were not a sufficient price, I say a sufficient price and ransom for our salvation? Ye see then on the one side, how S.