A17698:1103
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.
But by the way let us mark well, that if our Lord have at one time given us more than we deserve: we must not therefore take leave to tempt him, and to subdue him still to our lusts, as we see the Papists do now adays, who excuse themselves of their not coming to the Gospel, because they see no miracles wrought in our time. No surely. But whereto serve the miracles that our Lord Jesus Christ wrought, and §30which he committed to his Apostles to do likewise? Should those serve to no purpose at this day? Ye see then that God uttered an excellent power at the first coming up of the Gospel:1 heaven & earth were shaken at that time: there was no part of the world wherein God printed not some mark of his Majesty, to the intent that the Gospel should be authorized.2 The Angels came down at the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ to bear witness of him:3 the Sun was darkened §40at his death: the veil of the temple was rent asunder to show that the sanctuary was opened, and that there was more free access to God than ever there had bin:4 the sea was calmed: the devils themselves did homage to the glory of God which was uttered at that time:5 and to be short, GOD showed both from above and beneath, that the Gospel came from him, (as I have told you already,) as well by the healing of diseases, as by all the other miracles that were wrought. And §50this served not for that time only, but the remembrance thereof continueth unto this day, and it behoveth us to receive that record to seal up our faith withal, to the end we may not doubt, but that our Lord maketh his Gospel of as great force by them at this day, as he did at the same time that they were showed. Yet notwithstanding we see how the faithless do still allege, that if they saw miracles, it would convert them. But it is certain that if they saw never so many