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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.
Now he •••eth, that Jesus Christ hath broken down the wall that was between them. And he useth that […], too declare that the Ceremonies and figures are abolished, so as there is now •o let but that we may be knit together in concord and brotherly love. And anon after he compareth the Ceremonies of the •a•e too […] enmity. For like as we now […] days have Baptism, which separateth us from the heathen: so when God chose the Jews, he gave them Circumcision. Now then, when we be one […] baptized, we bear the mark whereby God will have us known too be of his Church, and of the flock of his son Jesus Christ. The like be[…] and use had Circumcision in the time of the lame. The Sacrifices witnessed […] them, that God forgave them their sins. Forasmuch […] us […] privilege was not given too any […] to Abraham's linage […] saith, it was as a wall […] […]; like as if some ground were paled about too keep sheep in, or as if some stable were made to keep cattle in. Even so was it then. For God (as is showed in the song of Noises) had stretched out his lines too hold the linage of Abraham separated from the rest of the world. There ••en was Gods path, and the Ceremonies were as walls or pa[…]s too hold in that people under the keeping and the protection of God. And what were the •e[…] •yles? They went on at adventure, yea and even in destruction, according as it is said, that God had not vouchsafed them the fa[…] too manifest his righteousness unto them. And S. Paul also showeth […] pre[…]y, that God had suffered them too walk on in the […] and that they had bin as wretched beasts in that behalf. Now we […] S. Pauls meaning when he speaketh of the Ceremonies, how they were as a wa[…] too deuyde the Jews from the Gentiles. But now are they all broken down, because that Jesus Christ […] is the trueth & very substance of them, is come too put away all those shadows. For the giving of the ceremonial la[…] was not to the […] […] the people should […] themselves wholly about that, and put their […] in it, as hypocrites do, which pervert Gods meaning, that •oo the intent they should •pply the absence of […] […] Jesus Christ, as S. Paul ⟨image 110⟩