Two and twenty sermons of Master John Calvin In which sermons is most religiously…Two and twentie sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin In which sermons is most religiously…

So likewise, when it is said in the holy scripture,¹ that this is a true and undoubted saying that God hath sent his only begotten son▪ to save all miserable sinners: we must include it within this same rank I say, that every of us apply the same particularly to him self: when as we hear this general sentence, that God is merciful▪ Have we heard this? Then may we boldly call upon him, and even say, although ⟨image 62⟩I am a miserable and forlorn creature, since it is said that God is merciful to those which have offended him: I will run unto him and to his mercy, beseeching him that he will make me to feel it. And since it is said. That God so loved the world; ²that he spared not his only begotten son: but delivered him to death for us. It is meet I look to that. For it is very needful, that Jesus Christ should pluck me out from that condemnation, wherein I am. Since it is so, that the love and goodness of God is declared unto the world, in that that his son Christ Jesus hath suffered death, I must appropriate the same to my self, that I may know that it is to me, that God hath spoken, that he would I should take the possession of such a grace, and therein to rejoice me.

So likewise, when it is said in the holy scripture,¹ that this is a true and vndoubted saying that God hath sent his only begotten sonne▪ to saue all miserable sinners: wee must include it within this same ranke I saye, that euery of vs apply the same particularly to him self: when as we heare this generall sentēce, that God is merciful▪ Haue we heard this? Then may we boldly call vpon him, and euen say, although ⟨image 62⟩I am a miserable and forlorne creature, since it is saide that God is mercifull to those which haue offended him: I will runne vnto him and to his mercy, beseeching him that hee will make me to feele it. And since it is saide. That God so loued the world;