Sermons of M. John Calvin upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the GalatiansSermons of M. Iohn Caluine vpon the Epistle of Saincte Paule to the Galathians

therefore it is said that if we give not ear too the Son of God, the father is prejudiced thereby, according also as our Lord Jesus himself declareth in that he sayeth,¹ He that despiseth you despiseth me, and he that rejecteth me rejecteth the living God that sent me. Mark then whereunto the order tendeth which S. Paul keepeth: namely that if we do not willingly honour our Lord Jesus Christ, by accepting his doctrine for certain and infallible: God is set at naught, and we cannot say that our intent is too worship him, for he will reject all our doings. And why? For (as I said afore) it is enough too prove us rebels, if we separate the Son from his Father. And S. Paul addeth expressly, that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, too the end that his Apostleship should not be the less esteemed, ⟨p. 8⟩and also that men should match him with the number & company of the other Apostles, according also as he was added too them after that Jesus Christ ceased too be any more upon earth. For (as I have touched already) the thing wherewith the false Apostles which came too overthrow all upbraided him, was this: How now [said they]? He hath not bin the Disciple of the Son of God as Peter and John were: he is a thing borne out of season. And how can he show that he hath received his doctrine of Jesus Christ? S. Paul declareth that if they will needs inquire of the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, his rising again ought not too have diminished it. Surely though our Lord Jesus Christ were brought low while he had the veil of mans nature upon him, whereby his glory was after a sort hidden: yet was he not abased in himself.² For we know that the Angels acknowledged him for their sovereign king, and although he were [borne] in a stable and laid upon the ground as a creature destitute of all help: yet we see that the Stars of the sky bare record of him.³ To be short, the majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ was always sufficiently avouched, as long as he was in this world. But yet for all that, there was a much excellenter glory in his resurrection, according as it is said in the first too the Romans,⁴ that then he was showed too be the Son of God. And we also have seen in the second Epistle to the Corinthians,