A17698:114
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.
On Thursday the xj. of April. 1555. The fourth Sermon upon the first Chapter.
On Thursday the xj. of Aprill. 1555. The fourth Sermon vppon the first Chapter.
16 And I charged then your Judges, saying, Hear your brethren, and judge uprightly between a man and his brother, and between the stranger that is with him. 17 You shall have no respect of person in judgement, but hear the small as well as the great. Ye shall fear no mans countenance: for the judgement is the ⟨p. 18⟩Lords. And the case that is too hard for you, bring it before me and I will hear it. 18 And at the same time I commanded you all the things which you ought to do.
16 And I charged then your Iudges, saying, Heare your brethren, and iudge vprightly betweene a man and his brother, and betweene the straunger that is with him. 17 You shall haue no respect of person in iudgement, but heare the small as well as the great. Ye shall feare no mans countenance: for the iudgement is the ⟨p. 18⟩Lordes. And the case that is too harde for you, bring it before mee and I will heare it. 18 And at the same time I commanded you all the things which you ought to doe.
WE have seen already what warning Moses gave for the choosing of men meet to govern the people. For (as hath bin declared) if they had taken judges at all adventure, it had bin a defiling of Gods seat. Therefore in that case, it behooved them to use good discretion. But here Moses addeth a point which we ought to mark well. For although he had procured, that §10