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…

John reporteth in his twentieth chapter) Go ye too my brethren and tell them,¹ I go too my God and your God, too my father and your father. Lo how Jesus Christ joineth himself in such wise with his faithful ones, that he saith he will have one selfsame God with them. Yea verily but in what sort? For is he not God himself? Yes: howbeit forasmuch as he is clothed with our flesh, and inasmuch as he vouchsafed too be made flesh, too the end that we might be members of his body: that is the cause why he hath one God with us. And that is the cause also why the Apostle applieth this text of Isaiah's too his person:² Lo here am I with the servants which thou hast given me: so as Jesus Christ cometh there as a captain that presenteth himself before his king and prince,³ saying, Lo here I am with the company of children which thou hast given me. Howsoever the case stand, we see that Jesus Christ draweth us too God his father, too the end we should repair too him with full trust, and he receive us. For otherwise who is he that durst be so bold as too height himself that his request should be heard? What grace could ⟨p. 43⟩we obtain,⁴ if the gate were not opened us by Jesus Christ, and that he performed not the thing that he hath spoken, namely that he is the way:

Iohn reporteth in his twentith chapter) Go yee too my brethren and tel them,¹ I go too my God and your God, too my father and your father. Lo how Iesus Christ ioyneth himself in such wyse with his faythfull ones, that he sayth he will haue one selfsame God with them. Yea verily but in what sort? For is he not God himself? Yis: howbeeit forasmuch as he is clothed with our flesh, and inasmuch as he voutsaued too bee made fleshe, too the ende that wee myght bee members of his bodie: that is the cause why he hath one God with vs. And that is the cause also why the Apostle applyeth this text of Esayes too his person: