Five Sermons on the Beatitudes Calvin
John Calvin
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Five Sermons on the Beatitudes Calvin — John Calvin.
Chapters 61
- Chapter 1: The Calling and Preparation of the Twelve 2 ≈ 1 min
- Chapter 2: Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit and Those Who Mourn 13 ≈ 1 min
- Chapter 3: The Meek Those Who Hunger for Righteousness and the 24 ≈ 1 min
- Chapter 4: The Pure in Heart Peacemakers and the PersecuteD 37 ≈ 1 min
- Chapter 5: Persecution Reproach and the Worlds Praise 49 ≈ 6 min
- because our Lord Jesus already had several disciples who willingly followed his ≈ 4 min
- perfect rectitude, wisdom, and justice: but nevertheless we are not capable of ≈ 4 min
- have profited so badly under such a master as the Son of God, who is the source ≈ 4 min
- brotherhood, which he had taken, to pray to God. And in fact, he gave us the ≈ 5 min
- should be there, or even the hundredth: and that we know that this example of ≈ 4 min
- whom could James and John have thundered by their own power? Because they ≈ 4 min
- short, this is what we have to remember from these titles which must serve as an ≈ 4 min
- and will take occasion to abandon all restraint even more. We will see when ≈ 4 min
- Paul says in the second chapter of 2 Timothy remains firm: it is that the Lord ≈ 4 min
- dissolute in life: when we therefore see them such: when we see tyrants who will ≈ 5 min
- Here then is a preface to indicate that he began to address his disciples on a ≈ 4 min
- that we are afflicted and mocked, and that not only do we almost have death ≈ 4 min
- Now it is true that this doctrine is good and sound: but it does not fit this ≈ 4 min
- and grind their teeth: and then their pride overflows more than ever: and God ≈ 4 min
- Here then in short is what we have to gather from this passage: that all those ≈ 4 min
- Moreover, our Lord Jesus Christ also says in the same sense, that the ≈ 4 min
- anguish, that we must have our minds full of bitterness, and that after having ≈ 5 min
- enough that his love is declared to us, and that by faith we apprehend it when ≈ 4 min
- because we would always be unhappy, when we had carefully examined what is ≈ 5 min
- recognize that it is not without cause that he thus wanted to prepare all his own. ≈ 5 min
- Because although we think that our condition is much worse, when we endure ≈ 4 min
- see, provided that we are not blinded by our vanity and lies, and false opinions: ≈ 4 min
- hide, that they have nowhere to hide. their refuge, because God is their ≈ 4 min
- and then God persecutes them wherever they are. As for us, let us return to what ≈ 4 min
- Lord Jesus Christ. Because it is certain tain that we cannot collect the words of ≈ 4 min
- find it strange, however, if this happens. For as much as we will not stop being ≈ 4 min
- want everyone to applaud them: they want to be happy, and always cheerful, and ≈ 4 min
- the word almsgiving, which we use in our language: but this word has not been ≈ 4 min
- taste what is here explained as in passing, let us conclude that in truth it is a part ≈ 4 min
- we had been lice or fleas, and frogs, and all the vermin of the world. Now then ≈ 4 min
- is how we will find mercy towards God, when we have pity on all those who ≈ 4 min
- One brief announcement remains. The magistrates have agreed to call our ≈ 4 min
- any means without anyone detecting them. And so it might seem that they are ≈ 4 min
- be, and what purpose all this will serve. In short, they will want to amuse ≈ 4 min
- heart. Because otherlies, because our hearts are purged from all malice, and that ≈ 4 min
- the enmities will come, and will grow until they come to mortal hatred, to kill ≈ 4 min
- people would come together to fight each other, that we remedy this early, and ≈ 4 min
- God dominates in the middle, that men are united together to serve it with an ≈ 4 min
- see that those who act as true servants of God, when they judge a cause, they will ≈ 4 min
- by his spirit, so much so that they cannot endure the clarity of the Gospel, nor ≈ 4 min
- This, I say, is what they would like to attract and attract us to if they could. ≈ 4 min
- Gospel. And so, we who protest having received the doctrine by which we are ≈ 4 min
- yet there is no one who is not partly guilty of it, because we have no zeal. And ≈ 5 min
- hidden therein. and God by his word discovers everything, he probes the secret ≈ 4 min
- this very word, These (he says) are the children that the Lord has given me: it ≈ 4 min
- God for his guardian, and knows that he approves of his cause, does not care ≈ 4 min
- true that already they are so exposed that all their authority is almost lost in ≈ 4 min
- testimony of him, and that our conscience responds to us in good, as Peter ≈ 4 min
- they knew that it was necessary for the truth to be victorious: and that even ≈ 4 min
- them, and everyone trembled under them. When he saw this, he protested that ≈ 4 min
- see today: but have patience. For if their joy is converted into gnashing of teeth, ≈ 4 min
- scoundrels of the Papacy, who will talk enough about merits, but it is while ≈ 4 min
- let's look at how the faithful are comfortable. It is true that if God sends them ≈ 4 min
- about God or the spiritual life. And then they harden themselves, and if any ≈ 4 min
- face of God, as it is said in the Psalm 16. So let goods be our help, until we enjoy ≈ 4 min
- such a plot, when the prophets and teachers of the church, those who are ≈ 3 min
| Author | John Calvin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Reformation |
| Categories | Theology |
| Chapters | 61 |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.