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…

For if we be a• the point that the Papists are, who can well enough say, Jesus Christ our Redeemer, and therewithal thrust him into the throng of their He saints and She saints, so as Christ is as it were but a little fellow shuffled in among the rest: I say, if we be at that point: surely we renounce Jesus Christ, in disguising him so through our lewdness. So much the more then doth it stand us on hand too weigh well this text, where it is said, that his riches are incomprehensible, that we may set our whole minds thereupon, and enforce our selves even beyond our power, too know the good things tha• are communicated too us by Jesus Christ: for it is certain, that the measure of our faith shall never attain too the uttermost. Sith i• is so, let us assure our selves (as I said afore) that our Lord […] Christ ought too suffice us throughly once for all: for we• shall […] in him whatsoever we can wish. And as soon as we swar•e from him▪ we may well surmise we have won I wot near what, b•t it shall be but wind, which shall •ill us too no purpose. So then, let […] Lord Jesus be known as he is, that is too wit, with the whole […] of his benefits. For it is certain▪ that by him we obtain […] that ever we can ask at Gods […] ⟨image 138⟩where else,¹ it is a straying out of the way: for it is said, that he is the way, and that by him we have access unto God his father. In […] that it is his office too guide us too God his father, thereby he showeth us that we shall be satisfied of all that ever we need, and that we• shall […] too our salvation, so we r•st wholly upon him. And on the contrary part, that when we wander out on the one side or on the other, it is a plain renouncing of all the benefits that are offered us in his person: and therefore we be well worthy too starve when w•e […] needs add any thing at all too our Lord Jesus Christ, seeing that God hath showed himself so bountiful in him, that he hath not forgotten any of all the things that belong too the fullness of our felicity, joy, nd glory. Also we be warned by S. Pauls example, that the more that any of us is exalted at Gods hand, the more he should humble himself, acknowledging how much he is bound unto him. Tre it is, that even they which are furthest of all behind, have case enough too magnify Gods goodness, for his calling of them into his Church.