A17698:1079
Sermons upon Deuteronomy
The sermons of M. John Calvin upon the fifth book of Moses called Deuteronomy faithfully gathered word for word as he preached them in open pulpit; together with a preface of the ministers of the Church of Geneva, and an admonishment made by the deacons there. Also there are annexed two profitable tables, the one containing the chief matters; the other the places of Scripture herein alleged. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding.The sermons of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the fifth booke of Moses called Deuteronomie faithfully gathered word for word as he preached them in open pulpet; together with a preface of the ministers of the Church of Geneua, and an admonishment made by the deacons there. Also there are annexed two profitable tables, the one containing the chiefe matters; the other the places of Scripture herein alledged. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding.
London: printed by Henry Middleton for George Bishop, 1583
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.
That is the cause why God divided his Law into two tables.
That is the cause why God diuided his Lawe into two tables.
Now then, will we lead our life aright? Let us always have regard, first to honour our God, & afterward to live uprightly and indifferently with our neighbours. For there are some that forbear to do harm to their neighbours, but in the mean while they make no reckoning of God: but they think they shall go quite & clear, so no man complain of them in the world. And I pray you what matter is it though we steal not from men, if we rob God of his honour? Is it not a heynouser crime to rob God of his honour, than to rob a man, or to cut his purse, or to rifle his coffer? Yes. Then let us not think we have all done, when men cannot indict us nor complain of us. For the case standeth upon yielding unto God that which he demandeth, the which also is dew unto him. For we be bound to honour him all our life long. Therefore it stā death us so much the more in hand, to apply our minds to the keeping of the first table of the law, so as we lead not a philosophical life like the heathen, only to behave our selves honestly among men: but specially that we have Gods honour in estimation & make that the first point which we begin at. ⟨p. 252⟩Likewise there are some others which will needs carry a countenance of devotion towards God, and of great zeal to serve and honour him: and yet when they come to be conversant among men, they pill, they poll, they quarrel, and they be full of cruelty, envy, and malice. But let us mark that God hath not separated the two tables of his law. In deed he hath put a difference betwixt them: but he hath not delivered to some men the first table, and to othersome the second §10to keep. He hath said, this is my law: and look what I have joined together, must not be put asunder. True it is that ye must be put in remembrance of the love that ye owe to your neighbours, that ye may go through with it: But yet notwithstanding, when ye have discharged your selves of that point, ye must frame your selves to the other also. Likewise when ye shall have showed great devotion in the worshipping and serving of me: ye must not be careless to