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 secondly we have too mark, that Jesus Christ was sent us too the end that we should be repaired after the image of God. It is true that he hath reconciled us to God his father by his death & passion, & that the shedding of his blood washeth us from all our filthiness, and setteth us free from damnation, and endless death, and that his offering of himself hath made full satisfaction for us: insomuch that if we resort to Jesus Christ for remission of our sins, God of his own free goodness accepteth us for righteous, because he passeth not what we be, but burieth all our faults, and ceaseth not to favour us as his children, notwithstanding that we be wretched sinners. This benefit receive we by Jesus Christ. But yet must we not separate the second ⟨p. 209⟩point from it: which is,¹ that we must be sanctified by his holy spirit, according too this saying, that he hath received the fullness of all grace, too the end that all of us should draw out of him. And Isaiah² declareth that spirit of wisdom, the spirit of judgment, the spirit of uprightness, and the spirit of the fear of God rested upon him. And was that for any need that he himself had? No: but too the intent that we should receive that which we want, according too the measure that it pleaseth him too deal unto us, as we have seen heretofore. And that is the cause why S. Paul in the second too the Corinthians sayeth,³ that he became poor too the intent too fill us with his riches. Then if we desire too be received too mercy at Gods hand, by the death and passion of his only Son, and too have our sins unimputed to us, because he hath made discharge and payment for them: let us learn also that he is given us too make us holy, too the end we should be governed by his holy spirit. So then, if we intend too begin too rule our life well: we must forsake our selves and fight against our own nature. And again, we must note also that there is no Christianity in us, neither can we any skill of the Son of God, or of his power, or of his office, until we know that we ought too be repaired by him according too the image of God. Those are the two things which we ought too mark well. True it is that this deserveth well too be laid forth more at large: