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A short instruction for to arm all good Christian people against the pestiferous errors…A short instruction for to arme all good Christian people agaynst the pestiferous errours…
A short instruction for to arm all good Christian people against the pestiferous errors of the common sect of Anabaptists. Compiled by master John CalvinA short instruction for to arme all good Christian people agaynst the pestiferous errours of the common secte of Anabaptistes. Compiled by mayster Iohn Caluine
London: printed by John Daye, 1549London: printed by Ihon Daye, 1549
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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.
But they see not, that if we should so expound the word this day, the word yester day ⟨image 63⟩should signify the time of the old Testament, and so should it follow that the Lord Jesus did begin to be, which were a great absurdity, for as much as we know that he is our eternal God, and also touching his humanity, he is called the Lamb sacrificed from the beginning of the world.
But they se not, that if we shoulde so expound the word thys day, ye word yester day ⟨image 63⟩shoulde signifye the tyme of the olde Testament, and so shoulde it folowe that the Lord Iesus dyd begyn to be, whych were a great absurdite, for as much as we knowe that he is our eternall God, and also touchynge his humanitie, he is called the Lambe sacrificed from the begynnyng of the worlde.
Moreover after their saying, we might conclude that they, whole sins Jesus Christ hath forgiven, ought to enter into heaven before the day of the resurrection. For the Apostle speaketh of three times, of the which the one, as I think, signifieth the day of the old testament, and the other signifieth the time which shall be from the renewing of the world. Therefore it resteth, that this word to day, must signify the time in which we be, which is between the death of Jesus Christ & his last coming. And that they may the better know their beastliness. If Jesus Christ had promised heaven unto the these for the day of Judgement, he ought to have said in the world to come, and not this day. For that is the scriptures manner of speaking. Who thinketh them not overcome by this clear reason? Yet is their impudency such, that they bring yet an other replication, which is: that heaven is promised unto the these, in like sort as death was pronounced to Adam and Eva, in what day so ever they should eat of the fruit which was forbidden them. Now is it certain that they dyed not the same day, but long time after. I answer that in the same ⟨image 63⟩