A17698:1326
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.
Now hereupon Moses addeth, That God will §10keep covenant to a thousand generations of them that love him: yea through his mercy, sayeth he. For as much as he treateth of the general election: therefore he exhorteth the people to bethink themselves advisedly. Note ye (saith he) that for as much as God hath promised your father Abraham to be the God of his seed after him: he will not fail you. But yet for all that, look that ye walk warily, for the covenant is made with condition, that ye must be sound and have a right meaning §20heart. Therefore think not but that your God can drive you out of his house and out of his Church, if he find you unworthy of the benefit which he hath offered unto you. With that meaning doeth Moses speak, when he putteth here a difference between them that love him and keep his commandments, and them that hate him. Now by these words we be taught, that when God offereth us his word, it is already an allying of himself to us, & a giving of us a record of our salvation:§30 but yet doth it not follow that we may therefore be careless. Nay rather we must be quickened up to embrace the promises which he sendeth us, so as we may rest wholly upon them, and be steadfastly, settled in them all our life long. That is a thing whereupon it behoveth us to think. True it is that God layeth open his heart unto us when his word is preached unto us: there we be put in mind of his love, and also have full assurance of our salvation. But yet must that word enter in unto §40our heart, & prevail with us: which thing is not done but through faith. And so let us understand that Gods election is as it were defeated by us, unless we be constant & continue steadfastly in it to the end.1
Nowe herevpon Moses addeth, That God will §10keepe couenaunt to a thousande generations of them that loue him: yea through his mercie, saieth he. For as much as he treateth of the generall election: therefore he exhorteth the people to bethinke themselues aduisedly. Note ye (saith he) that for as much as God hath promised your father Abraham to be the God of his seede after him: he wil not faile you. But yet for all that, looke yt ye walk warely, for the couenant is made with condition, that ye must be sound and haue a right meaning