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…

[…] we deal after this manner, then doth Gods word put […] of all doubt,¹ that sin shall not get the upper hand of […] because we be not under the law, but under grace. And […] continual maintaining & renewing of the battle against […], the world, and our own flesh, assureth us, that although […] be never so full of infirmities, yet are we grafted into Christ,² and grown into him by resembling his death, in that […] have crucified, and daily labour to crucify the old man […] him:³ by means whereof we grow up again into the •••enesse of his resurrection, through newness of life to the ••ory of God for ever. Finally, it warranteth us that we be […] grounded and settled in Gods Election, so as we cannot […] any wise perish. For Satan is not divided against himself: […] worldlings hate not the world,⁴ nor the things therein: ••esh and blood mislike no• the corruption of the old Adam: other can any man come unto Christ, except the father draw […]. Now then, seeing that to strive against sin, and too […] continually by repentance after the manner afore mention ed, and to do all things of mere love, cometh not of our […], (for the natural man is not obedient to Gods will, no••er can be:)⁵ but of God the father of all mercy, comfort, and […], from whom every good and perfect gift cometh, who […] of his own free goodness worketh in us both the will […] the performance thereof by the power of his spirit:⁶ And ••eyng that the shedding of his spirit after that sort into our ••rtes (being the earnest penny of salvation, and seal of our […] option, to strengthen our weakness, and to warrant and […] us against all temptations) is a sure and infallible proof […] Gods love towards us,