Resource 1560 Geneva Bible pdf - bookmarked by book and chapter 2014-01-09

After all, most were here fleeing persecution from the Anglican/Cath oppression/persecutions.

 

My copy of the 1560 Geneva Bible does have the Apocrypha. I don't accept the Apocrypha as inspired. In fact, there are serious problems with the Apocrypha that contradict the Truth of the Word of God.

 

"Slops" or "Purser"s slops" refereed to working rig clothing for sailors. Short legged, Sail cloth or "denim" french word for sail cloth (they invented it) and distributed by the ship's purser (supply officer)

 

I heard a quote that one of the translatrors said that James 1 would love the new translation because the word "tyrant" can not be found anywhere in it! One of many reasons I do NOT think the KJV is the most accurate translation. (Sorry KJO's). I am also highly offended that James I was referred to as "The Most High and Mightie Prince" That term, "Most High" is specifically reserved for The Lord God, Almighty. The desire for that title was Satan's demise: "I will ascend above ye height of the clouds, and I will be like the most high. " Isaiah 14:14

 

Thanks again Melbo for your first class work. Have you ever accessed William Tyndale.com ? It is a nice site with lots of good info.

 

RenaeC,

I suppose this journey has been
one of much Marvel & Wonder ...

 

... A Geneva Bible
After Action Report ...

... This journey Has been
one of much Marvel & Wonder ...

Last winter I was reading the hard copy
A.D. 1599 G.B. 'Michael Brown Facsimilie Edition.'

I read the old testement prophetic books &
After that I read the new testement epistles .

Then I purchased
the grammaticly revised 1599 Geneva Bible .

Now I'm reading the new testement again .

I recently took this copy to a local
church of christ and I shared with them
the sweet commentary and text
of my beloved G.B.

But they spewed it out -
So from that church I quickly
spewed myself out .

This bible is a Holy blessing
for a non church goer .

Otherwise , there may be
weeping and knashing of teeth . . .

Unto God be the glory !

 

~ Dear intelirand , ~

Although the book mark for 1st Peter chapter 5 IS missing ,
the Chapter 5 itself can still be found there .

Oh yes, I finally came back around to checking into this omission .

Some free internet service recently came my way and today I have access
to 2 Excellent online GB's ; Melbo's Edition Being 1 of them and the other
one Being at GenevaBible.org .

In Total I now have :

* One 1599 GB with Apocrapha on a CD .
* A 1599 GB Facsimile Hard copy
* A 1599 GB Grammatically corrected Hard copy
* Melbo's Edition 1560 GB with Apocrapha Downloadable *Free*
* The 1560-1599 GB Downloadable *Free* From GenevaBible.org

So, I recently downloaded Melbo's Edition & I was happy to see some
Introductory paragraphs to the epistles . I like those introductory paragraphs !
I was hoping that the four gospels of the GBNT would also have them .
The 1560 GB Book of Matthew has one and so does the book of Acts .
If I search enough editions I may find 1 for Each Book and Epistle .

About the Apocrapha : The GB commentaries offer me the best excuse I
have to read the Apocrapha .

... Now were can I find those GB Books of Enoch & Jasher ...

 

... About the Apocrapha ...

The books that really interest me right now are the books of the Maccabees,
as those are about War . I won't be reading them anytime soon though .

As for Enoch & Jasher I looked them up on Wikipedia & there it is
explained that available versions of these may not be authentic .

No problem, there's much left to read in the GBNT what with
the four gospels & the epistles .

Yes , Mr. Melbo, I do suppose that You've been or will be,
Holy Blessed for Your Good Works towards the Geneva Bible .

This 1560 version will serve to partially quench the
growing and parching hunger and thirst for righteousness .

This 1560 version of Yours at Survival Monkey,
is the most accessible 1560 of its kind online that
I know of .

It reminds me of the version that used to be available at that
old website called Reactor Core .

Unto God be the glory !

 

~ A thing that hath been hid, and never known hitherto, ~

From :
The 1560~1599 Geneva Bible
New Testement & Chapter 15
Of The First Epistle Of Paul
To The Corinthians

The Argument

After that Paul had preached at Corinth a year
and a half, he was compelled by the wickedness
of the Jews to sail into Syria.

In whose absence false Apostles
entered into the Church, who being
puffed up with vain glory, and effectuate
eloquence, sought to bring into contempt
the simplicity which Paul used in preaching
the Gospel.

By whose ambition such factions
and schisms sprang up in the Church,
that from opinions in policies and ceremonies,
they fell to false doctrine and heresies, calling into
doubt the resurrection from the dead, one of the chiefeth
points of Christian religion.

Against these evils the Apostle proceedeth,
preparing the Corinthian’s hearts and ears with
gentle salutations; but soon after he reproveth their
contentions and debates, their arrogancy and pride,
and exhorteth them to concord and humility, setting
before their eyes the spiritual virtue, and heavenly wisdom
of the Gospel, which cannot be persuaded by worldly wit
and eloquent reasons, but is revealed by God’s Spirit,
and so sealed in men’s hearts.

Therefore this salvation may not be attributed
to the ministers, but only to God, whose servants
they are, and have received charge to edify his Church,
wherein Paul behaved himself skillfully, building according
to the foundation (which is Christ) and exhorteth others to
make the end proportionable to the beginning, taking diligent
heed that they be not polluted with vain doctrine, seeing they
are the Temple of God.

And as for those which doubted of his Apostleship,
he sheweth them that he dependeth not on man’s judgment,
albeit he had declared by manifest signs that he never sought
his own glory, neither yet how he might live, but only the glory
of Christ; which thing at his coming he would declare more amply,
to the shame of those vain glorious braggers, who sought themselves
only, and therefore suffered most horrible Vices unreproved and
unpunished, as incest, contentions, pleadings before infidels,
fornication, and such like, to the great slander of the Gospel.

This done, he answereth to certain points of the Corinthian’s letter,
as touching single life, duty of marriage, of discord and dissention
among the married, of virginity, and second marriage.

And because some thought it nothing to be present at idol service,
seeing in their heart they worshipped the true God, he warneth them
to have respect to their weak brethren, whose faith by that dissembling
was hindered, and their consciences wounded, which thing rather than
he would do, he would never use that liberty which God had given him.

But forasmuch as pride, and self will was the cause of those great evils,
he admonisheth them by the example of the Jews not to glory in these
outward gifts, whose horrible punishment for the abuse of God’s
creatures, ought to be a warning to all men to follow Christ
uprightly, without all pollution and offence of others.

Then he correcteth divers abuses in their Church,
as touching the behavior of men and woman in the assemblies
of the Lord’s Supper, the abuse of the spiritual gifts, which God hath given
to maintain love and edify the Church; as concerning the resurrection from
the dead, without the which the Gospel serveth to no use.

Last of all he exhorteth the Corinthians to relieve the poor brethren at Jerusalem,
to preserve in the love of Christ, and well doing, sending his commendations,
and wishing them peace.


1 Corinthians 15

1 The Gospel that Paul preached.
3 The death and resurrection of Christ.
8 Paul saw Christ.

9 He had persecuted that Church,
whereof afterward he was made a minister.

12 Christ first rose again, and we all shall rise by him.

26 The last enemy, death.
29 To be baptized for dead.

32 At Ephesus Paul fought with beasts.

35 How the dead are raised.
45 The first Adam. The last Adam.
47 The first and second man.

51 We shall all be changed, we shall not all sleep.

55 Death’s sting.
57 Victory.

58 Constancy and steadfastness.


1 Moreover, (1) (*) brethren,
I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you,
which ye have also received, and wherein ye (a) continue,

(1) The sixth treatise of this Epistle, concerning the resurrection;
and he useth a transition, or passing over from one matter to another,
shewing first that he bringeth no new thing, to the end that the Corinthians
might understand that they had begun to swerve from the right course; and
next that he goeth not about to entreat of a trifling matter, but of another
chief point of the Gospel, which if it be taken away, their faith must needs
come to nought.

And so at the length he beginneth this treatise at Christ's resurrection,
which is the ground and foundation of ours, and confirmeth it first by the
testimony of the Scriptures, and by the witness of the Apostles, and of more
than five hundred brethren, and last of all by his own.

(*) Galatians 1:11 .

(a) In the profession whereof you continue yet.


2 And whereby ye are saved,
if ye keep in memory, after what
manner I preached it unto you, (b)
(*) except ye have believed in vain.

(b) Which is very absurd, and cannot be,
but that they which believe, must reap the fruit of faith.

(*) If you believe to be saved by the Gospel, ye must believe
also the resurrection of the dead, which is one of the principal
points thereof, or else your belief is but vain.


3 For first of all, I delivered unto you that which I () received,
how that Christ died for our sins, according to the (*) Scriptures,

() He sheweth that nothing ought to be taught,
which we have not learned by God’s word.

(*) Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24 .


4 And that he was buried,
and that he arose the third day according to the (*) Scriptures,

(*) Jonah 2:1 .


5 (*) And that he was seen of Cephas,
then of the (c) () twelve.

(*) John 20:19 .

(c) Of those twelve picked and chosen Apostles,
which were commonly called twelve, though Judas
was put out of the number.

() Although Judas wanted, yet they were so called still.


6 After that, he was seen of more than five hundred brethren
at (d) once; whereof many remain unto this present,
and some also are asleep.

(d) Not several times, but together and at one instant.


7 After that, he was seen of James, then of all the Apostles.


8 (*) (2) And last of all he was seen also of me,
as of one born out of due time.

(*) Acts 9:4-5 .

(2) He maintaineth by the way, the authority of his Apostleship,
which was requisite to be in good credit among the Corinthians,
that this Epistle might be of force and weight amongst them.

In the mean season he compareth himself in such sort after a certain
divine art with certain others, that he maketh himself inferior to them all.


9 (*) For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meet to be called
an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

(*) Ephesians 3:8 .


10 (*) But by the () grace of God I am that I am, and his grace which
is in me, was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all,
yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

(*) Ephesians 3:7 .

() For he was but the instrument,
and minister and giveth the whole glory to God.


11 Wherefore, whether it were I,
or they, so we preach, and so have ye believed.


12 ¶ (3) Now if it be preached, that Christ is risen from the dead,
how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

(3) The first argument to prove that there is a resurrection from the dead:
Christ is risen again, therefore the dead will rise again.


13 (4) For if there be no resurrection
of the dead, then is Christ not risen;

(4) The second by an absurdity:
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then is not Christ risen again.


14 (5) And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching (*) vain,
and your () faith is also vain.

(5) The proof of that absurdity by other absurdities;
If Christ be not risen again, the preaching of the Gospel is in vain,
and the credit that you gave unto it is vain, and we are liars.

(*) Christ’s death is not effectual except he rise from death.

() For if Christ be swallowed up of death,
there remaineth no hope of life anymore.


15 And we are found also false witnesses of God,
for we have testified of God, that he hath raised up Christ,
whom he hath not raised up, if so be the dead be not raised.


16 (6) For if the dead be not raised, then is Christ not raised.

(6) He repeateth the same argument taken from an absurdity,
purposing to shew how faith is in vain if the resurrection of Christ
is taken away.


17 And if Christ be not raised,
your faith is (*) vain; (7) ye are (e) yet in your () sins.

(*) As mortification, and remission of sins depend on Christ’s death;
so our quickening and restoring to life stand in his resurrection.

(7) First, seeing death is the punishment of sin, in vain should we
believe that our sins were forgiven us, if they remain, but they do
remain, if Christ rose not from death.

(e) They are yet in their sins, which are not sanctified,
nor have obtained remission of their sins.

() You are not forgiven nor sanctified.


18 (8) And so they which are asleep in Christ, are perished.

(8) Secondly, unless that this be certain that Christ rose again,
all they which died in Christ, are perished.

So then what profit cometh of faith?


19 (9) If in this life (*) only we have hope in Christ,
we are of all men the most miserable.

(9) The third argument which is also taken from an absurdity;
for unless there be another life, wherein such as trust and believe
in Christ shall be blessed, they were the most miserable of all
creatures, because in this life they are the most miserable.

(*) Or, only for this life’s sake.


20 (10) But now is Christ risen from the dead,
(11) and was made the (*) (f) () firstfruits of them that slept.

(10) A conclusion of the former argument:
Therefore Christ is risen again.

(11) He putteth the last conclusion for the first
proposition of the argument that followeth.

Christ is risen again, Therefore shall we the faithful
(for of them he speaketh) rise again.

Then followeth the first reason of this consequent;
for Christ is set forth unto us, to be considered of,
not as a private man apart and by himself, but as the
firstfruits; and he taketh that which was known, to all
men, to wit, that the whole heap is sanctified in the firstfruits.

(*) Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1:5 .

(f) He alludeth to the firstfruits of corn,
the offering whereof sanctified the rest of the fruits.

() As by the offering of the first fruit the whole fruit is sanctified,
so by Christ which is the first that is raised, all have assurance
of the resurrection.


21 (12) For since by man came death,
by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

(12) Another confirmation of the same consequent:
for Christ is to be considered as opposite to Adam, that as
from one man Adam, sin came over all, so from one man Christ,
life cometh unto all.

That is to say, that all the faithful, as they die, because by nature
they were born of Adam, so because in Christ they are made the
children of God by grace, they are quickened and restored
to life by him.


22 For as in Adam all die,
even so in (*) Christ shall () all be (g) made alive.

(*) Who rose first from the dead
to take possession in our flesh for us his members.

() To wit, the faithful.

(g) Shall rise by the virtue of Christ.


23 (13) But every man in his (*) own order:
the firstfruits is Christ, afterward, they that are of Christ,
at his coming shall rise again.

(13) He doeth two things together: for he sheweth that the
resurrection is in such sort common to Christ with all his
members, that notwithstanding he far surpasseth them,
both in time (for he was the first that rose again from the dead)
and also in honor, because that from him and in him is all our life
and glory.

Then by this occasion he passeth in the next argument.

(*) 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15 .


24 (14) Then shall be the (h) end, when he hath
(*) delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father,
when he hath put down (i) all rule, and all authority and power.

(14) The fourth argument, wherewith also he confirmeth the other,
hath a most sure ground, to wit, because that God must reign.

And this is the manner of his reign, that the Father will be shewed
to be King in his Son who was made man, to whom all things are made
subject (the promiser only except) to the end that the Father may
afterwards triumph in his Son the conqueror.

And he makes two parts of this reign and dominion of the Son,
wherein the Father's glory consisteth, to wit, the overcoming of
his enemies

(whereof some must be deprived of all power, as Satan and all
the wicked, be they never so proud and mighty, and others must
be utterly abolished as death)

and a plain and full delivery of the godly from all enemies, that by
this means God may fully set forth the body of the Church, cleaving
fast to their head Christ, his kingdom and glory as a King in his subjects.

Moreover, he putteth the first degree of this kingdom in the resurrection
of the Son, who is the head, and the perfection, in the full conjunction of
the members with the head, which shall be in the latter day.

Now all these tend to this purpose, to shew that unless the dead do
rise again, neither the Father can be King above all, neither Christ
the Lord of all.

For neither should the power of Satan and death be overcome,
nor the glory of God be full in his Son, nor his Son in his members.

(h) The shutting up and finishing of all things.

(*) Christ as he is man and head of the Church is said to be subject
to God; but in respect of the world, is King of heaven and earth.

This kingdom standeth in governing the faithful; and overcoming
the adversaries, even death the chiefest, which done, Christ being
perfected with all his members, shall as he is man and head of the
Church, with his fellow heirs deliver his Kingdom, and be subject
to God with whom and the holy Ghost in Godhead he is equal.

(i) All his enemies which shall be spoiled of all the power they have.


25 For he must reign (*) till
he hath put all his enemies (k) under his feet.

(*) Psalm 110:1; Acts 2:34; Hebrews 1:13; Hebrews 10:13 .

(k) Christ is considered here, as he appeared in the form of a servant,
in which respect he ruleth the Church as head, and that because this
power was given him of his Father.


26 The (l) last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death.

(l) The shutting up of the argument, which is taken from
the whole to the part, for if all his enemies shall be put under
his feet, then must it needs be that death also
shall be subdued under him.


27 (*) For he hath put down all things under his feet.
(And when he saith that all things are subdued to him,
it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put down
all things under him.)

(*) Psalm 8:6; Hebrews 2:8 .

28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him,
(m) then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him,
that did subdue all things under him,
that God may be (*) all in all.

(m) Not because the Son was not subject to his Father before,
but because his body, that is to say, the Church which is here in
distress, and not yet wholly partaker of his glory, is not yet fully
perfect; and also because the bodies of the Saints which be in the
graves shall not be glorified until the resurrection.

But Christ as he is God, hath us subject to him as his Father hath,
but as he is Priest, he is subject to his Father together with us.

Augustine, book 1, chapter 8; of the Trinity.

By this high kind of speech,
is set forth an incomprehensible glory which floweth from God,
and shall fill all of us, as we are joined together with our head,
but yet so, that our head shall always reserve his preeminence.

(*) We shall be perfectly fulfilled with his glory and felicity.


29 (15) Else what shall they do
which are baptized (o) (*) () for dead?

If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for dead?

(15) The fifth argument taken of the end of Baptism,
to wit, because that they which are baptized for dead,
that is to say, that they may have a remedy against death
because that Baptism is a token of regeneration.

(o) They that are baptized,
to this end and purpose, that death may be put out in them,
or to rise again from the dead, whereof baptism is a seal.

(*) That is, as dead and because they were but newly
come to Christ, would be baptized before they died.

() Except these things be true of Christ’s kingdom
and his subjection, what shall become of them whom
the Church daily baptizeth, for to destroy death in them
which is the end of baptism, and so they to rise again?


30 (16) Why are we also in jeopardy every hour?

(16) The sixth argument:
Unless there be a resurrection of the dead, why should the
Apostles so daily cast themselves into danger of so many deaths?


31 (*) By our (p) rejoicing
which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

(*) I take to weariness all my sorrows, wherein I may
justly rejoice in the Lord, that I have sustained them among you.

(p) As though he said, I die daily, as all the miseries I suffer can well
witness, which I may truly boast of, that I have suffered amongst you.


32 (17) If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus (q) after () the manner
of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead be not raised up? (*)
(18) Let us (r) eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

(17) The taking away of an objection;
but thou Paul didst ambitiously, as commonly
men are wont to do, when thou didst fight with
beasts at Ephesus.

That is very like, saith Paul, for what could that advantage
me, were it not for the glory of eternal life which I hope for?

(q) Not upon any godly motion, nor casting mine eyes upon
God, but carried away with vain glory, or a certain headiness.

() That is, having regard to this present life,
and not to God’s glory, and to life everlasting.

(*) Isaiah 22:13 .

(18) The seventh argument which dependeth upon the last:
if there is no resurrection of the dead, why do we give ourselves
to anything else, save to eating and drinking?

(r) These are speeches that Epicureans use.


33 (19) Be not deceived: Evil speakings corrupt good manners.

(19) The conclusion with a sharp exhortation,
that they take heed of the naughty company of certain,
from whence he sheweth that this mischief sprang, warning
them to be wise with sobriety unto righteousness.

34 Awake to live righteously, and sin not;
for some have not the knowledge of God, I speak this to your shame.

35 (20) But some man will say, How are the dead raised up?
And with what body come they forth?

(20) Now that he hath proved the resurrection, he discovereth
their doltishness, in that they scoffingly demanded, how it could be
that the dead should rise again, and if they did rise again, they asked
mockingly, what manner of bodies they should have.

Therefore he sendeth these fellows which seemed
to themselves to be marvelous wise and witty,
to be instructed of poor rude husbandmen.


36 (21) O fool, that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die.

(21) Thou mightest have learned either of these,
saith Paul, by daily experience, for seeds are sown, and rot,
and yet notwithstanding so far it is off, that they perish,
that contrariwise they grow up far more beautiful.

And whereas they are sown naked and dry, they spring up green
from death by the virtue of God, and doth it seem incredible to thee
that our bodies should rise from corruption, and that endued with a
far more excellent quality?


37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that
shall be, but bare corn as it falleth, of wheat, or of some other.


38 (22) But God giveth it a body
at his pleasure, even to every seed his own body.

(22) We see a diversity both in one and the selfsame thing which
hath now one form and then another, and yet keepeth its own kind,
as it is evident in a grain which is sown bare, but springeth up far after
another sort; and also in divers kinds of one selfsame sort, as amongst beasts;
and also among things of divers sorts, as the heavenly bodies and the earthly
bodies; which also differ very much one from another.

Therefore there is no cause why we should reject
either the resurrection of the bodies, or the changing
of them into a better state, as a thing impossible, or strange.


39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one (*) flesh of men,
and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds.

(*) There is one substance as touching the flesh both of man and beast,
but the difference is as touching the quality.


40 There are also heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies, but the
glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.

41 There is another glory of the (*) sun,
and another glory of the moon, and another glory
of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.

(*) Even as the sun and the moon being of one substance differ in dignity;
so in the resurrection our bodies shall have more excellent qualities
than they have now.


42 (23) So also is the resurrection of the dead.
The body is (s) sown in corruption, and is raised in incorruption.

(23) He maketh three manner of qualities of the bodies being raised:
Incorruption, to wit, because they shall be sound, and altogether of a
nature that cannot be corrupt; Glory, because they shall be adorned
with beauty and honor; Power, because they shall continue everlasting
without meat, drink, and all other helps, without which this frail life
cannot keep itself from corruption.

(s) Is buried, and man is hid as seed in the ground.


43 It is sown in (t) (*) dishonor, and is raised in glory;
it is sown in weakness, and is raised in (u) power.

(t) Void of honor, void of glory and beauty.

(*) For what is more vile to look unto than the dead carcass.

(u) Freed from the former weakness, whereas it is subject to such
alteration and change, that it cannot maintain itself without meat
and drink, and such otherlike helps.


44 (24) It is sown a natural body, and is raised a (*) spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

(24) He sheweth perfectly in one word, this change of the quality
of the body by the resurrection, when he saith, that of a natural body,
it shall become a spiritual body; which two qualities being clean different,
the one from the other, he straightway expoundeth
and setteth, forth diligently.

(*) Not changing the substance, but made partaker of the divine nature.


45 (25) As it is also written, The (x) first man (*) Adam was made
a living soul; and the last Adam was made a () quickening Spirit.

(25) That is called a natural body, which is quickened and maintained
by a living soul only, such as Adam was, of whom we are all born naturally;
and that is said to be a spiritual, which together with the soul is quickened
with a far more excellent virtue, to wit, with the Spirit of God, which
descendeth from Christ the second Adam unto us.

(x) Adam is called the first man, because he is the root as it were from whence
we spring; and Christ is the latter man, because he is the beginning of all them
that are spiritual, and in him we are all comprehended.

(*) Genesis 2:7 .

Christ is called a Spirit, by reason of that most excellent nature,
that is to say, God who dwelleth in him bodily, as Adam is called a
living soul, by reason of the soul which is the best part in him.

() Christ bringeth us from heaven the Spirit of life.


46 (26) Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual,
but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

(26) Secondly, he willeth the order of this double state or quality
to be observed, that the natural was first, Adam being created of the
clay of the earth; and the spiritual followed and came upon it, to wit,
when as the Lord being sent from heaven, endued our flesh, which
was prepared and made fit for him, with the fullness of the Godhead.


47 The first man is of the earth, (z) earthly;
the second man is the Lord (*) from (a) heaven.

(z) Wallowing in dirt, and wholly given to an earthly nature.

(*) This is attributed to Christ as concerning his divinity, not in respect of his
humanity whose flesh hath this glory by the power of God who dwelleth in it.

(a) The Lord is said to come down from heaven by that kind of speech,
whereby that which is proper to one is vouched of another.


48 (27) As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly;
and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

(27) He applieth both the earthly naturalness of Adam (if I may so say)
to our bodies, so long as they are naturally conversant on earth, to wit,
in this life, and in the grave; and also the spirituality of Christ to the same
our bodies, after that they are risen again; and he saith, that which goeth
before and this shall follow.


49 And as we have borne the (b)
(*) image of the earthly, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly.

(b) Not a vain and false image,
but such a one as had the truth with it indeed.

(*) Both in substance and form we are earthly.


50 (28) This say I, brethren, that (c)
(*) flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom
of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

(28) The conclusion:
We cannot be partakers of the glory of God unless
we put off all that gross and filthy nature of our bodies
subject to corruption, that the same body may be adorned
with incorruptible glory.

(c) Flesh and blood are taken here for a living body,
which cannot attain to incorruption, unless it put off corruption.

(*) This natural body as it is now, till it be made new by the Spirit of Christ.


51 (29) Behold, I shew you a (d) secret thing;
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be (*) changed,

(29) He goeth further, declaring that it shall come to pass
that they which shall be found alive in the latter days shall not
descend into that corruption of the grave, but shall be renewed
with a sudden change, which change is very requisite; and that the
certain enjoying of the benefit and victory of Christ, is deferred unto
that latter time.

(d) A thing that hath been hid, and never known hitherto,
and therefore worthy that you give good ear unto it.

(*) When the Lord cometh to judgment, some of the Saints shall be
alive, whom he will change even as if they were dead, so that this change
is instead of death to them.


52 In (e) a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last (*) trumpet;
for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall be raised up incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.

(e) He sheweth us that the time shall be very short.

(*) Matthew 24:31; 1 Thessalonians 4:16 .


53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible hath put on incorruption,
and this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall be brought
to pass the saying that is written, (*) Death is swallowed up into victory.

(*) Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 7:17 .


55 (*) () O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?

(*) Hosea 13:14; Hebrews 2:14 .

() O death, where is thy victory? O grave, where is thy sting?


56 The sting of death is sin, and the (*) strength of sin is the Law.

(*) Sin first brought in death and giveth it power over us, and the strength
of sin is the Law, because it doeth reveal the judgment of God against us;
or else the chief cause of our destruction is in ourselves.


57 (*) But thanks be unto God,
which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(*) 1 John 5:5 .


58 (30) Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable,
abundant always in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that
your labor is not in (*) vain in the (f) Lord.

(30) An exhortation taken of the profit that ensueth,
that seeing they understand that the glory of the other life
is laid up for faithful workmen, they continue and stand fast
in the truth of the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.

(*) The hope of resurrection causeth the faithful to surmount all difficulties.

(f) Through the Lord's help and goodness working in us.


From :
The 1560-1599 Geneva Bible
With Original Geneva Footnotes
of both the 1560 and 1599 versions
and all with Corrected Spelling

Find :
The bottom of the page to Access
Old & New Testaments With Footnotes
GENEVA BIBLE 1599

* To God Be The Glory *

 

I have this one...... the one from Patriot Depot........ but it can be obtained elsewhere I see and maybe cheaper..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1450742491?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

1599 Geneva Bible - Patriot's Edition

1599 Geneva Bible: Tolle Lege Press, The Reformers: 9780975484616: Amazon.com: Books

I welcome opinions on this version......... it also contians the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence and more..

and I saw someone asking about certain words in one of the version this one contains the meanings of those words.

Hope this helps........

 

was lookin around and found these articles.... which present a different argument...worth a read I reckon.......

interesting claims and opinions have and are put forth...

links to the articles help a lot when a statement is made...

these differ from what some claim..... truth, myth, fact, lies, beliefs, and desires can get kinda mixed up sometimes?

how accurate things are on the net is always open to question........

and everyone that's interested can decide for themselves I reckon....

I have read from many different versions of the Bible and have noticed there are differences and what I got out of one did not always match what I got out of another.........

apparently this is not just my imagination....

others see similar such things too.... might be worth it to look around and see if anyone recorded the differences?


King James I of England (VI of Scotland) -Interesting Facts


King James -Unjustly Accused?


Modern Bible Omissions


NIV Exposed!

 

God Be Praised !

Yes Sir , I did consider getting the Patriot's Edition . I think it also has in it
A Patriot Document Called 'The Northwest Ordinance' .

That Tolle Lege Press Edition That You Listed Is The One That I
Read On Every Day !

When I Purchased it , They sent with it a CD-ROM containing
the Geneva Bible Apocrypha , which is good to have and also
Included the rest of the G.B. on the CD-R also .

If You've read the Histories of the G.B. available Online You will
eventually understand that each Edition which began to be printed
back in the 1500's might have some extra text which might not
appear in the following edition .

Well, with different publishers doing virtually the same thing today,
adding extra articles or text or such like, they are making the modern
editions of the Geneva Bible as Collectable as the original & older
editions are .

Someday I too will have the Patriots Edition .
Some day they could sell Each Edition on a CD-R .
Way Cheaper to buy like that .

There's at least two articles I can think of that are in both
editions of the G.B. that I have & there is one article in the
older edition that is not in the newer one .

There are texts in the G.B. that have not been read Aloud
in almost 500 years .

Furthermore , Our Blessed & Beloved G.B. has literally been
resurrected from historical obscurity by practically nothing much
more than the advent of the internet itself .

And isn't that an interesting comment & perhaps ironic in light
of the history of the Great Protestant Reformation which did
spread rapidly across Europe with the help of all those
Shiny & New Protestant Driven Printing Presses ?

Those Old Founding Fathers of This Our Protestant Faith
Do indeed write things into Our Geneva Bible that make
me feel as though I will weep for Joy when I sometimes
ponder them .

Unto God Goes The Glory !

 

Yes Sir , I have read many similar articles as these about King James
and the problems with modern bibles .

Something that definitely happened after the king James Bible was
newly published was a Great & Gradual Public & Social Resurgence
of national patriotism in England .

And it came right on the heals of a powerful movement called
the protestant reformation . But here again , another possible
Historical Irony may pop up .

As King James comes along and places his political seal of
approval upon these newly awakened Protestant Christians;

Did not also the Roman Emperor Constantine do the same
at a time when the Roman Empire was loosing it's long
& Strong Dominance over the Romanly conquered world .

He Declares himself a Christian
& next he declares Italy a Christian nation,
& its citizens Christian & the state religion to be Christian .

King James Did a similar thing when he Produced the
Government Authorized 'King' James Bible .

I recently saw a video on Youtube about the protestant
reformation . In it the narrator describes how Switzerland
became somewhat politically controlled be these new
protestant reformers & eventually these protestant
politicians were writing and passing and enforcing
political laws which were based upon Bible Scriptures .

Incidentally, if you check the Geneva Bible Apocrypha
Book of Maccabees, you may see the same kind of thing
going between orthodox Hebrews Vs. Greek
Influenced Hebrews .

My point being that when the Comfortable Government Establishment
Is Challenged by a counter movement who's cause may be stronger
or higher or more Just than it's own, Sometimes the Establishment will
seek to Assimilate the Challenging counter Movement into its own favor,
if the counter movement becomes too threatening to the power of the
establishment or too popular amongst the establishments citizens .

God Be Praised !

 

... His judgments and ways are most perfect ;

From :
The 1560 -1599 A.D.
Geneva Bible New Testament :

The Revelation Of Saint John
The Apostle And Evangelist,
With the Annotations Of
Francis Junius & Chapter 1 :


The Order Of Time,
whereunto the Contents
of this book are to be referred .

A.D. 1. & c.
The dragon watches
the Church of the Jews,
which was ready to travail :
She brings forth, fleeth, and
hideth her self, whiles Christ
was yet upon the earth .

A.D. 34.
The dragon persecuted Christ
ascending into heaven, he fighteth
and is throwen down : and after
persecuteth the Church of the Jews .

A.D. 67.
The Church of the Jews
is received into the wilderness,
for three yeeres and an half .

A.D. 70.
When the Church of the Jews
was overthrowen, the dragon invaded
the Catholick Church, all this in the
12 chap.

The dragon
is bound for a 1000 yeeres, chap 20.
The dragon raiseth up the beast
with seven heads, and the beast with
two heads, which make havocke of the
Church Catholick, and her Prophets for
1260 yeeres after the Passion of Christ,
chap. 13 and 11.


A.D. 97.
The seven Churches are admonished
of things present, somewhat before the end
of Domitian his reigne, and are forewarned
of the persecution to come under Traiane
for ten yeeres, chap. 2 and 3.

God by word and signes
provoketh the world, and
sealeth the godly, chap. 6 and 7.

He sheweth foorth examplars
of his wrath upon all creatures,
mankinde excepted, chap 8.

A.D. 1073.
The dragon is let loose
after 1000 yeeres, and Gregory
the vij. being Pope, rageth against
Henrie the third then Emperour,
chap. 20.

A.D. 1217.
The Dragon vexeth the world
150 yeeres, unto Gregory the ix.
who writ the Decretals, and most
cruelly persecuted the Emperour
Frederick the second.

The dragon by both of the beasts
persecuteth the Church, and putteth
the godly to death, chap. 9.

A.D. 1295.
The dragon killeth the prophets
after 1260 yeeres, when Boniface
the viij. was Pope, who was the authour
of the sixth book of the Decretals : hee
excommunicated Philip the French King.

A.D. 1300.
Boniface celebrated the Jubile.

A.D. 1301.
About this time was a great earthquake,
which overthrew many houses in Rome.


A.D. 1305. -
Prophecie ceaseth for three yeeres
and an halfe, untill Benedict the second
succeeded after Boniface the viij.

Prophecie is revived, chap 11.

The dragon and the two beasts
oppugne Prophecie, chap. 13.

Christ defendeth his Church
in word and deed, chap. 14.

With threats and armes, chap. 15.

With singular judgements, chap. 16.

Christ giveth his Church victory
over the harlot, chap. 17. and 18.

Over the two beasts, chap. 19.

Over the dragon
and death, chap. 20.

The Church is fully glorified
in heaven with eternal glory, in
Christ Jesus, chap. 21. and 22.


The Argument

It is manifest,
that the holy Ghost
would as it were gather
into this most excellent book
a sum of those prophecies, which
were written before, but should be
fulfilled after the coming of Christ, adding
also such things as should be expedient, as
well to forewarn us of the dangers to come,
as to admonish us to beware some,
and encourage us against others.

Herein therefore
is lively set forth the
Divinity of Christ, and the
testimonies of our redemption;

what things the Spirit of God alloweth in
the ministers, and what things he reproveth;

the providence of God for his elect, and of
their glory and consolation in the day of
vengeance, how that the hypocrites which
sting like scorpions the members of Christ,
shall be destroyed, but the Lamb Christ shall
defend them, which bear witness to the truth,
who in despite of the beast and Satan
will reign over all.

The lively description
of Antichrist is set forth,
whose time and power notwithstanding
is limited, and albeit that he is permitted
to rage against the elect, yet his power
stretcheth no farther than to the hurt of
their bodies;

and at length he shall be
destroyed by the wrath of God, when as
the elect shall give praise to God for the
victory; nevertheless for a season God will
permit this Antichrist, and strumpet under the
color of fair speech and pleasant doctrine to
deceive the world;

wherefore he advertiseth
the godly

(which are but a small portion)

to
avoid this harlots flatteries, and brags, whose
ruin without mercy they shall see, and with the
heavenly companies sing continual praises; for
the Lamb is married;

the word of God hath
gotten the victory;

Satan that a long time was
united, is now cast with his ministers into the
pit of fire to be tormented forever, where as
contrariwise the faithful

(which are the holy City of Jerusalem, and wife of the Lamb)

shall enjoy perpetual glory.

Read diligently;

judge soberly, and
call earnestly to God for
the true understanding hereof.


Revelation Chapter 1

2 He declareth
what kind of doctrine is here handled,

8 even his
that is the beginning and ending.

12 Then the mystery
of the seven Candlesticks
and stars,

20 is expounded.

1 The (1) (a) Revelation
of (b) Jesus Christ, which
(*) God gave unto him, to shew
unto his servants things which must
shortly be () done; which he sent, and
shewed by his Angel unto his servant John,

(1) This Chapter
hath two principal parts,
the title or inscription, which
standeth in stead of an exordium;

and a narration going before the
whole prophecy of this book.

The inscription is
double, general and particular.

The general containeth
the kind of prophecy, the author,
end, matter, instruments, and manner of
communicating the same, in the first verse;
the most religious faithfulness of the Apostle
as public witness, verse two;

And the use of
communicating the same taken from the
promise of God, and from the circumstance
of the time, the third verse.

(a) An opening of secret and hid things.

(b) Which the Son opened to us
out of his Father's bosom by Angels.

(*) Christ received this revelation
out of his Father's bosom as his own
doctrine, but it was hid in respect of us
so that Christ as Lord and God revealed
it to John his servant by the ministry of his
Angel, to the edification of his Church.

() To the good and bad.


2 Who bare record
of the word of God, and
of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
and of all things that he saw.


3 Blessed is he that readeth,
and they that hear the words of
this (*) prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein; for
the time is () at hand.

(*) Which expoundeth
the old prophets, and sheweth what
shall come to pass in the New Testament.

() And began even then.


4 (2) John to the () seven Churches
which are in Asia, Grace be with you,
and peace (3) from him, (c) Which (*) is,
and Which was, and Which is to come, and
from (4) the (d) (()) seven Spirits which are
before his Throne,

(2) This is the particular
or singular inscription, wherein
salutation is written unto certain
Churches by name, which represent
the Church; and the certainty and the
truth of the same is declared, from the
Author thereof, unto the eighth verse
Revelation 1:8 .

() Meaning the Church universal.

(3) That is, from God the Father,
eternal, immortal, immutable;

whose
unchangeableness John declareth by a
form of speech which is undeclined.

For there is no
incongruity in this place, where,
of necessity the words must be attempted
unto the mysteries, and not the mysteries
corrupted or impaired by the word.

(c) By these three times,
Is, Was, and Shall be, is signified
the word Jehovah, which is the
proper name for God.

(*) Exodus 3:14 .

(4) That is, from the holy Ghost
which proceedeth from the Father
and the Son.

This Spirit is one in person
according to his subsistence;

but in communication of his virtue,
and in demonstration of his divine works
in those seven Churches, doeth so perfectly
manifest himself, as if there were so many
Spirits, every one perfectly working in his
own Church, wherefore after Revelation 5:6;

they are called the seven horns and seven
eyes of the Lamb, as much to say, as his
most absolute power and wisdom; and in
Revelation 3:1, Christ is said to have there
seven Spirits of God, and Revelation 4:5,
it is said, that seven lamps do burn before
his throne, which also are those seven
Spirits of God.

That this place ought
to be so understood,
it is thus proved.

For first grace and peace
is asked by prayer of this Spirit, which is a
divine work, and in action incommunicable,
in respect of the most high Deity.

Secondly,
he is placed between
the Father and the Son, as set
in the same degree of dignity and
operation with them.

Besides he is before the throne
as of the same substance with the
Father and the Son;

as the seven
eyes and seven horns of the Lamb.

Moreover, these spirits
are never said to adore God,
as all other things are.

Finally, that is the power
whereby the Lamb opened the book, and
loosed the seven seals thereof when none
could be found amongst all creatures by
whom the book might be opened
Revelation 5:1-10 ;

Of these things long
ago, Master John Luide of Oxford wrote
learnedly unto me.

Now
the holy Ghost is set in order of
words before Christ, because there
was in that which followeth, a long
process of speech to be used
concerning Christ.

(d) These are the seven spirits,
which are afterward Revelation 5:6,
called the horns and eyes of the Lamb,
and are now made as a guard
waiting upon God.

(()) That is, from the holy Ghost;

or these seven Spirits were ministers
before God the Father and Christ, whom
after he calleth the horns and eyes of the
Lamb, Revelation 5:6;

In alike phrases Paul
taketh God, and Christ,
and the Angels to witness,
1 Timothy 5:21 .


5 And from Jesus Christ,
(5) which is the (*) faithful
witness, and () the first begotten
of the dead, and the Prince of the
Kings of the earth, unto him that
loved us, and washed us from our
sins in his (()) blood,

(5) A most ample and grave
commendation of Christ, first
from his offices the Priesthood
and kingdoms;

secondly from his
benefits, as his love toward us, and
washing us with his blood, in this verse,
and communication of his kingdom and
Priesthood with us;

thirdly, from his
eternal glory and power, which always
is to be celebrated of us; Revelation 1:6 .

Finally, from the accomplishment
of all things once to be effected by
him, at his second coming, what time
he shall openly destroy the wicked,
and shall comfort the godly in the
truth; Revelation 1:7 .

(*) Psalm 89:38 .

() 1 Corinthians 15:21;
Colossians 1:18 .

(()) Hebrews 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19;
1 John 1:9 .


6 And made us (*) Kings
and Priests unto God even
his Father, to him be glory and
dominion for evermore. Amen.

(*) 1 Peter 2:5 .


7 Behold, he cometh
with (*) clouds, and every
(e) eye shall see him, yea, even
they which () pierced him through;
and all kindreds of the earth shall
wail (()) before him, Even so, Amen.

(*) Isaiah 3:14; Matthew 24:30;
Jude 1:14 .

(e) All men.

() They that contemned Christ
and most cruelly persecuted him,
and put him to death, shall then
acknowledge him.

(()) Or, for him.


8 (6) I (*) am (f) () Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and
the ending, saith the Lord, Which
is, and Which was, and Which is to
come, even the Almighty.

(6) A confirmation
of the salutation aforegoing,
taken from the words of God
himself; in which he avoucheth his
operation in every singular creature,
the immutable eternity that is in himself,
and his omnipotency in all things;

and
concludeth in the unity of his own
essence, that Trinity of persons
which was before spoken of.

(*) Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13 .

(f) I am he
before whom there
is nothing, yea, by whom
everything that is made, was
made and shall remain though
all they should perish.

() Alpha and Omega
are the first and last letters
of the alphabet of the Greeks.


9 (7) I John,
even your brother,
and companion in tribulation,
and in the kingdom and patience
of Jesus Christ, was in the (g) isle
called Patmos, for the word of God,
and for the witnessing of Jesus Christ.

(7) The narration
opening the way to
the declaring of the authority
and calling of John the Evangelist
in this singular Revelation, and to
procure faith, and credit unto this
prophecy.

This is the second part
of this Chapter, consisting of a
proposition, and an exposition.

The proposition sheweth,
first who was called unto this
Revelation, in what place, and
how occupied, Revelation 1:9 .

Then at what time
and by what means,
namely, by the Spirit
and the word, and that
on the Lord's day, which
day ever since the resurrection
of Christ, was consecrated for
Christians unto the religion of the
Sabbath;

that is to say, to be a day
of rest, Revelation 1:10 .

Thirdly, who is the author
that calleth him, and what is
the sum of his calling.

(g) Patmos is one of the isles
of Sporas, whither John was
banished as some write.


10 And I was ravished in (h) spirit
on (*) the (i) Lord's day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as it had
been of a trumpet,

(h) This is that holy ravishment,
and being as it were carried out
of the world were cognizant with
God, and so Ezekiel saith often that
he was carried from place to place of
the Lord's Spirit, and that the Spirit of
the Lord fell upon him.

(*) Which some call Sunday.

(i) He calleth it the Lord's day,
which Paul calleth the first day
of the week; 1 Corinthians 16:2 .


11 Saying, I am (*) Alpha
and Omega, the first and the
last: and that which thou seest,
write in a book, and send it unto
the () seven Churches which are in
Asia, unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna,
and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira,
and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia,
and unto Laodicea.

(*) I am he before whom
nothing was, yea, by whom
whatsoever is made, was made,
and he that shall remain when all
things shall perish, even I am the
eternal God.

() Of the which some were fallen;

others decayed, some were proud,
others negligent; so that he sheweth
remedy for all.


12 (8) Then I turned back
to (k) see the () voice, that
spake with me. (9) And when
I was turned, I saw (*) seven
golden candlesticks,

(8) The exposition,
declaring the third and
last point of the proposition

(for the other points are evident
of themselves)

wherein is spoken first of
the author of his calling unto
the seventeenth verse.

Secondly, of the calling
itself unto the end of the
Chapter; Revelation 1:17-20 .

And first of all the occasion
is noted in this verse, in that
John turned himself towards
the vision, after is set down the
description of the author in the
verses following,
Revelation 1:13-16 .

(k) To see him whose voice I had heard.

() That is, him whose voice I heard.

(9) The description
of the Author, which is
Christ;

by the candlesticks
that standeth about him, that
is, the Churches that stand before
him, and depend upon his direction.

In this verse,
Revelation 1:13;

by his properties, that
he is one furnished with
wisdom and dexterity to
the achieving of great things,
verse thirteen and ancient gravity
and most excellent sight of the eye,
verse fourteen with strength invincible
and with a mighty word, verse fifteen.

By his operations,
that he ruleth of the
ministry of his servants
in the Church, giveth the
effect thereunto by the sword
of his word, and enlightening all
things with his countenance, doeth
most mightily provide for everyone by
his divine providence, verse sixteen.

(*) Meaning the Churches.


13 And in the midst
of the seven candlesticks,
one like unto the (*) Son of man,
clothed with a garment () down to
the feet, and girded about (()) the
paps with a golden girdle.

(*) Which was Christ,
the head of the Church.

() As the chief Priest.

(()) For in him was no
concupiscence, which is
signified by girding the loins.


14 His head and hairs
were (*) white as white wool,
and as snow, and his eyes were
as () a flame of fire,

(*) To signify
his wisdom, eternity and divinity.

() To see the secrets of the heart.


15 And his feet like unto
() fine (()) brass, burning as
in a furnace, and his (*) voice
as the sound of many waters.

() Or, alcumine.

(()) His judgments
and ways are most perfect.

(*) Both because
all nations praise him,
and also his word is heard
and preached through the world.


16 And he had in his right hand
seven (*) stars, and out of his mouth
went a () sharp two edged sword; and
his face shone as the sun shineth in his
strength.

(*) Which are
the Pastors of the Churches.

() This sword signified his word
and virtue thereof, as is declared in
Hebrews 4:12 .


17 (10) And when I saw
him, I fell at his feet as (*) dead.
(11) Then he laid his right () hand
upon me, saying unto me, Fear not;
(12) I am the (()) ((())) first and the last,

(10) A religious fear
that goeth before the calling
of the Saints, and their full confirmation
to take upon them the vocation of God.

(*) Daniel 10:9 .

(11) A divine confirmation
of this calling, partly by sign,
and partly by word of power.

() To comfort me.

(12) A most elegant description
of this calling contained in three things,
which are necessary unto a just vocation;

first the authority of him that calleth, for that
he is the beginning and end of all things, in this
verse, for that he is eternal and omnipotent,
Revelation 1:8 .

Secondly,
the sum of this prophetical
calling and revelation, Revelation 1:19 .

Lastly a declaration
of those persons unto
whom this prophecy is by
the commandment of God
directed in the description
thereof, Revelation 1:20.

(()) Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 44:6 .

((())) Equal God
with my Father, and eternal.


18 And am alive,
but I was dead, and behold,
I am alive for evermore, Amen.
And I have the (*) keys of hell
and of death.

(*) That is, power over them.


19 (13) Write the things
which thou hast seen, and
the things which are, and the
things which shall come
(*) hereafter.

(13) The sum
of this prophecy,
that the Apostle must
write whatsoever he should
see, adding nothing, nor taking
away anything, as in Revelation 1:2 .

Hereof there are two parts:

one is a narration of those things
which are, that is, which then were
at that time contained in the second
and third Chapters;

the other part is
of those things which were to come,
contained in the rest of this book.

(*) In the latter days.


20 (14) The mystery
of the seven stars which
thou sawest (*) in my right
hand, and the seven golden
candlesticks, is this, The seven
stars are the (l) Angels of the seven
Churches, and the seven candlesticks
which thou sawest, are the seven
Churches.

(14) That is,
the things which
was mystical, signified
by the particulars of the
vision before going.

(*) In my protection.

(l) By the Angels he meaneth
the Ministers of the Church.


The 1560-1599
Geneva Bible With Footnotes
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SUPPORT OF FREE WILL REFUTED ; Oh My !​

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Hence it appears
that the grace of God
(as this name is used when
regeneration is spoken of) is the
rule of the Spirit, in directing and
governing the human will.​

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Govern he cannot, without
correcting, reforming, renovating,
(hence we say that the beginning
of regeneration consists in the
abolition of what is ours in like
manner, he cannot govern without
moving, impelling, urging, and
restraining.​

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Accordingly,
all the actions which are afterwards
done are truly said to be wholly his.​

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Meanwhile,
we deny not the truth
of Augustine's doctrine,
that the will is not destroyed,
but rather repaired, by grace -
the two things being perfectly
consistent, viz., that the human
will may be said to be renewed
when its vitiosity and perverseness
being corrected, it is conformed to
the true standard of righteousness
and that, at the same time, the will
may be said to be made new,
being so vitiated and corrupted that
its nature must be entirely changed.​

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There is nothing then
to prevent us from saying,
that our will does what the
Spirit does in us, although the
will contributes nothing of itself
apart from grace.​

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We must, therefore,
remember what we quoted
from Augustine, that some men
labour in vain to find in the human
will some good quality properly
belonging to it.​

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Any intermixture
which men attempt to make
by conjoining the effort of their
own will with divine grace is
corruption, just as when unwholesome
and muddy water is used to dilute wine.​

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But though every thing good in the will is
entirely derived from the influence of the
Spirit, yet, because we have naturally an
innate power of willing, we are not
improperly said to do the things of which
God claims for himself all the praise; first,
because every thing which his kindness
produces in us is our own, (only we must
understand that it is not of ourselves and,
secondly, because it is our mind, our will,
our study which are guided by him
to what is good :​

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15 . Conclusion of the answer
to the last class of arguments.​

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Third and last division of the chapter
discussing certain passages of Scripture
http://www.reformed.org/books/institutes/books/book2/bk2ch05.html#fifteen.htm​

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5. THE ARGUMENTS USUALLY ALLEGED
IN SUPPORT OF FREE WILL REFUTED
http://www.reformed.org/books/institutes/books/book2/bk2ch05.html

By John Calvin :
The Institutes of the Christian Religion
http://www.reformed.org/books/institutes/entire.html​

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In God We Trust​

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From :
The 1599 Geneva Bible

A Metrical Psalm In The English Meter ;

Veni Creator

One holy Ghost eternal God,
proceeding from above,
both from the Father and the Son,
the God of peace and love.

Visit our minds, and into us
thy heavenly grace inspire,
that in all truth and godliness
we may have true desire.

Thou art the very comforter
in all woe and distress:

The heavenly gift of God most high,
Which no tongue can express.

The fountain and the lively spring
of joy celestial:

The fire so bright, the love so clear,
and unction spiritual.

Thou in thy gifts are manifold,
whereby Christ’s Church doth stand,
In faithful hearts writing thy Law
the finger of God’s hand.

According to thy promise made,
thou givest speech of grace:

That through thy help the praise of God
may stand in every place.

O holy Ghost into our minds
send down thy heavenly light:

Kindle our hearts with fervent love,
to serve God day and night.

Strength and ‘stablish all our weakness
so feeble and so frail,
That neither flesh, the world, nor devil,
against us do prevail.

Put back our enemies far from us,
and grant us to obtain:

Peace in our hearts with God and man,
without grudge or disdain.

And grant O Lord, that thou being
our leader and our guide:

We may eschew the snares of sin,
and from thee never slide.

To us such plenty of thy grace,
good Lord grant we thee pray:

That thou maist be our comfortess
at the last dreadful day.

Of all strife and dissention
O Lord dissolve the bands:

And make the knots of peace and love,
throughout all Christian Lands.

Grant us O Lord, through thee to know,
the Father most of might,
That of his dear beloved son,
we may attain the sight.

And that with perfect faith also,
we may acknowledge thee:

The spirit of them both alway,
one God in persons three.

Laud and praise be to the Father,
and to the son equal:

And to the holy spirit also,
one God coeternal:

And pray we that thy only Son,
vouchsafe his spirit to send.

To all that do profess his name,
unto the worlds end.

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Also Worthy Of Note ;

The History of Protestantism
by J. A. Wylie 1808-1890
Each Book 1 Through 24
For Online Reading

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~ The Son alone revealed his Gospel by his Spirit ; ~

From :

The 1560 -1599 A.D.
Geneva Bible New Testament :

The Epistle Of
The Apostle Paul
To The Galatians

The Argument

The Galatians
after they had been instructed
by Paul in the truth of the Gospel,
gave place to false Apostles,
who entering in, in his absence
corrupted the pure doctrine of Christ,
and taught that the ceremonies of the
Law must be necessarily observed,
which thing the Apostle so earnestly
reasoneth against, that he proveth that
the granting thereof is the overthrow
of man’s salvation purchased by Christ;

for thereby
the light of the Gospel
is obscured; the conscience burdened;

the testaments confounded; man’s justice
established.

And because the false teachers
did pretend, as though they
had been sent of the chief Apostles,
and that Paul had no authority,
but spake of himself, he proveth both
that he is an Apostle ordained by God,
and also that he is not inferior
to the rest of the Apostles;

which thing established,
he proceedeth to his purpose,
proving that we are freely justified
before God without any works or
ceremonies which notwithstanding in
their time had their use and commodity;

but now they are
not only unprofitable figures,
but also pernicious, because
Christ the truth and the end thereof
is come; wherefore men ought now to
embrace that liberty, which Christ
hath purchased by his blood, and
not to have their consciences
snared in the greens of man’s
traditions;

finally he
sheweth wherein this
liberty standeth, and what
exercises appertain thereunto.


Galatians Chapter 1

1 Straight after the salutation,

6 He reprehendeth the Galatians for revolting,

9 from his Gospel,

15 which he received from God,

17 before he had communicated with any of the Apostles.


1 Paul (1) an Apostle

(not (a) (♣) of men, neither by (b) (♠) man,

(*) but by (c) Jesus Christ, and God the Father

which hath raised him from the dead.)

(1) A salutation
comprehending in few words,
the sum of the Apostle's doctrine, and
also besides straightway from the beginning,
shewing the gravity meet for the authority of an
Apostle, which he had to maintain against
the false apostles.

(a) He sheweth
who is the author of
the minister generally; for
in this the whole ministry agreeth,
that whether they be Apostles, or
Shepherds, or Doctors,
they are appointed of God.

(♣) For God is the author of all ministry.

(b) He toucheth the instrumental cause;
for this is a peculiar prerogative to
the Apostles, to be called
immediately from Christ.

(♠) This prerogative
was peculiar to the Apostles.

(*) Titus 1:3 .

(c) Christ no doubt is man,
but he is God also, and head
of the Church, and in this respect
to be exempted out of the number of men.

2 And all the brethren which are with me,
unto the Churches of Galatia:

3 Grace be with you,
and peace from God the Father,
and from our Lord Jesus Christ,


4 (2) Which gave himself for our sins,
that he might deliver us (*) from
this (♣) present evil (d) world according
to the will of God even our Father,

(2) The sum of the true Gospel is this,
that Christ by his only offering,
saveth us being chosen out from the world,
by the free decree of God the Father.

(*) Luke 1:74 .

(♣) Which is, the corrupt
life of man without Christ.

(d) Out of that most corrupt
state which is without Christ.

5 To whom be glory forever and ever, Amen.


6 (3) I marvel that ye are so soon
(e) removed away unto another (*) Gospel,
from him that had called you in
the (♣) grace of Christ,

(3) The first part of the Epistle
wherein he witnesseth that he is an Apostle,
nothing inferior to those chief disciples of Christ,
and wholly agreeing with them, whose names
the false apostles did abuse.

And he beginneth with chiding,
reproving them of lightness for that
they have ear so easily unto them
which perverted them and drew
them away to a new Gospel.

(e) He useth
the passive voice, to cast
the fault upon the false apostles,
and he useth the time that now is,
to give them to understand, that it
was not already done, but in doing.

(*) Or, doctrine.

(♣) That is, to be partakers of
the salvation offered freely by Christ.


7 (4) Which is not another Gospel, save
that there be some which trouble you, and
intend to (f) (*) pervert the Gospel of Christ.

(4) He warneth them
in time to remember that
there are not many Gospels; and
therefore whatsoever these false apostles
pretend which had the Law, Moses and
the Fathers in their mouths, yet
they are indeed so many corruptions of
the true Gospel, insomuch, that he himself,
yea, and the very Angels themselves,

(and therefore much more these false apostles)

ought to be holden accursed, if they
go about to change the least iota that may be
in the Gospel, that he delivered to them before.

(f) For there is nothing
more contrary to faith or free
justification, than justification
by the Law, or by our deserving.

(*) For what is more contrary to
our free justification by faith, than the
justification by the Law, or our works?

Therefore
to join these two together, is
to join light with darkness,
death with life, and doeth
utterly overthrow the Gospel.


8 But though that we, or an
(*) Angel from heaven preach unto you
otherwise than that which we have preached
unto you, let him be (g) (♣) accursed.

(*) If it were possible, that the
Angel should so do; whereby Paul
declareth the certainty of his preaching.

(g) Look at Romans 9:3 .

(♣) Or, abominable.

9 As we said before, so say
I now again, If any man preach unto
you otherwise, than that ye have received,
let him be accursed.


10 (5) For (*) now preach
I (h) man’s doctrine, or God’s?
Or go I about to please men?
For if I should yet please men,
I were not the servant of Christ.

(5) A confirmation
taken both from the nature
of the doctrine itself, and
also from that manner which he useth
in teaching, for neither, saith he, did
I teach those things which pleased men as
these men do which put part of salvation
in external things, and works of the Law,
neither went I about to procure
any man's favor.

And therefore
the matter itself sheweth that
the doctrine which I delivered unto you,
is heavenly.

(*) Since that of
a Pharisee I was made an Apostle.

(h) He toucheth
the false apostles, who had
nothing but men in their mouths,
and he, though he would derogate nothing
from the Apostles, preacheth God and not men.


11 (*) (6) Now I certify you, brethren,
that the Gospel which was preached of me,
was not after (♣) man.

(*) 1 Corinthians 15:1 .

(6) A second argument to prove
that his doctrine is heavenly,
because he had it from heaven,
from Jesus Christ himself, without
any man's help, wherein he excelleth
them whom Christ taught here on earth
after the manner of men.

(♣) That is, doctrine
invented by man, neither by
man’s authority do I preach it.


12 For neither received I it of man,
neither was I taught it, but by the
(i) (*) revelation of Jesus Christ.

(i) This place
is to be understood of an
extraordinary revelation, for otherwise the
Son alone revealed his Gospel by his Spirit,
although by the ministry of men,
which Paul shutteth out here.

(*) By an extraordinary revelation.


13 (7) For ye have heard
of my conversation in time past,
in the Jewish religion, how that

(*) I persecuted the Church of
God extremely, and wasted it,

(7) He proveth
that he was extraordinarily taught
of Christ himself, by this history of
his former life, which the Galatians
themselves know well enough; for saith
he, it is well known in what school I
was brought up, even from my child, to wit,
amongst the deadly enemies of the Gospel.

And that no man may cavil
and say that I was a scholar of the
Pharisees in name only and not in deed,
no man is ignorant, how that I excelled
in Pharisaism, and was suddenly made of a
Pharisee, an Apostle of the Gentiles, so that
I had no space to be instructed of men.

(*) Acts 9:1 .


14 And profited in the Jewish religion
above many of my (*) companions of my
own nation, and was much more zealous
of the (k) (♣) traditions of my fathers.

(*) Or, age.

(k) He calleth them the traditions of
his Fathers, because he was not only a
Pharisee himself, but also had a
Pharisee for his father.

(♣) That is,
of the Law of God which
was given to the ancient fathers.


15 But when it (*) pleased God

(which had (l) separated me from my
mother’s womb, and called me by his grace.)

(*) He maketh three degrees
in God’s eternal predestination:

first his eternal counsel, then
his appointing from the mother’s womb,
and thirdly his calling.

(l) He speaketh of God's
everlasting predestination, whereby
he appointed him to be an Apostle,
whereof he maketh three degrees,
the everlasting council of God, his
appointing from his mother's womb,
and his calling;

here is no mention at all,
we see, of works foreseen.


16 To reveal his Son
(m) (♣) in me, that I should
preach him (*) among the Gentiles,
immediately (8) I communicated not
with (♠) flesh and blood,

(m) To me,
and this is a kind of speech which
the Hebrews use, whereby this is given us
to understand, that this gift cometh from God.

(♣) Or, to me.

(*) Ephesians 3:8 .

(8) Because it might be
objected, that indeed he was called
of Christ in the way, but afterwards
was instructed of the Apostles and others,
whose names

(as I said before)

the false apostles abused
to destroy his Apostleship, as
though he delivered another Gospel
than the true Apostles did, and
as though he were not of their number,
which are to be credited without exception;

therefore Paul answereth, that he began straightway
immediately after his calling to preach the Gospel
at Damascus and in Arabia, and was not from that time
in Jerusalem but only fifteen days, where he saw only
Peter and James, and afterwards, he began to teach
in Syria and Cilicia, with the consent and approbation
of the Churches of the Jews, which knew him
only by name: so far off was it, that
he was there instructed by men.

(m) With any man in the world.

(♠) That is, with any man, as
though I had need of his counsel
to approve my doctrine.

17 Neither came I again to Jerusalem
to them which were Apostles before me,
but I went into Arabia, and turned again
unto Damascus.

18 Then after three years
I came again to Jerusalem to visit Peter,
and abode with him fifteen days.

19 And none other of the Apostles saw
I, save James the Lord’s brother.


20 Now the things
which I write unto you, behold,
I witness (o) before God, that I lie not.

(o) This is a kind of oath.


21 After that,
I went into the coasts of Syria
and Cilicia; for I was unknown
by face unto the Churches of Judea
which were in Christ.


22 But they had heard only some say,
He which persecuted us in time past,
now preacheth the (p) (*) faith which
before he destroyed.

(p) The doctrine of faith.

(*) That is, the Gospel
which is the doctrine of faith.


23 And they glorified God for me.


The 1560-1599
Geneva Bible New Testament With Footnotes
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