A17698:115
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.
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 §10such as were chosen were men that feared God, and were endued with singular gifts: yet ceaseth he not to put them in mind of their duty, and to warn them of the things that they had to do. Wherein we see, that even the wisest have need to be taught, and the uprightest and justest have need to be warned. And therefore if God have set us in the good way, and bestowed gifts of his holy spirit upon us: let us not think that therefore we have no need to §20be taught. For we must be guided even unto the end, and we know that our perfection is not in this world, nor so long as we bear our flesh about us, and are conversant here beneath. Again, whom soever God hath honoured by setting them in state & degree of preeminence: let them understand that they have need to be told of their duty, and to be quickened up to discharge themselves accordingly.