A17698:1137
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.
These are the Commandments, Ordinances and Laws which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you: to the end that you should do them in the Land whereinto you shall enter to possess it. 2 That thou mayest fear the Lord thy God, in keeping all his ordinances & commandments which I command thee, all the days of thy life, both thou and thy children and thy children's children, that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hearken therefore O Israel and take heed that thou do them, that it may go well with thee, and that thou mayest be mightily multiplied in the land that floweth with milk and honey, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee. 4 Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is the only Lord.
THese are the Commaundements, Ordinances and Lawes which the Lorde your God commaunded me to teach you: to the end that you should doe them in the Land whereinto you shall enter to possesse it. 2 That thou maist feare the Lord thy God, in keeping al his ordinances & commaundements which I commaund thee, all the dayes of thy life, both thou and thy children and thy childrens children, that thy dayes may be prolonged. 3 Hearken therefore O Israel and take heede that thou doe them, that it may goe well with thee, and that thou maist be mightilie multiplied in the land that floweth with milke and honnie, as the Lorde God of thy fathers hath sayde vnto thee. 4 Heare O Israel, the Lord our God is the onelie Lord.
WE have seen oft heretofore how §30Moses spake to the people concerning the contents of the law: yea and even yesterday we saw that he made mention thereof:§40 and here we see the like again. And yet for all that, it is not a needless repetition, considering how soon men forget the things they have learned of God, if they be not put in mind of them: and we know that we need not any thing to turn us away from them. For we be so given to vanity, that nothing is harder to us, than to hold our selves in obedience unto God. As soon as any toy takes us in the head, it carieth us away, and we mind no more what §50