A17698:1193
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.
Behold (saith he,) the Lord thy GOD will bring thee into the land of Canaan. If thou ask what proof thou hast that it is Gods hand• thou needest no long disputing of the matter, thou knowest what promise was made thereof. This heritage then was assigned unto you aforehand by the free goodness of your God, even before you were borne. If God had given this land simply to the people of Israel without promising of it before: it had bin somewhat the dark summer.
Behold (sayth hee,) the Lorde thy GOD will bring thee into the land of Chanaan. If thou aske what proofe thou hast that it is Gods hand• thou needest no long disputing of the matter, thou knowest what promise was made thereof. This heritage thē was assigned vnto you aforehand by the free goodnesse of your God, euen before you were borne. If God had giuen this land simply to the people of Israell without promising of it before: it had bin somewhat the darke somer.
But seeing that GOD made an agreement and as it were a solemn league with Abraham,1 saying, this is the sign that I enter into covenant with thee and with thine offspring this day, namely that thou shalt inherit this land: howbeit, that shall not be presently, but thou thy self must live and dye there as a stranger, and also they that come of thee and their offspring likewise, must be sojourners in a strange land, and ⟨p. 279⟩be there vexed and grieved with continual tyranny: nevertheless they shall return thence at the end of four hundred years, and then will I perform my promise: Doth it not appear by these sayings, that God wrought in that behalf? Should any further proof be sought thereof? may not even blind folks feel it with their hands? We see then for what purpose Moses allegeth here the promise that had bin made to Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob: yea and Gods rehearsing of