A17698:140
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 Friday the xij. of April. 1555. The fifth Sermon upon the first Chapter.
On Fryday the xij. of Aprill. 1555. The fift Sermon vpon the first Chapter.
19 Then departed we from Horeb, and went through the wilderness which is great and terrible, as you have seen, along the way of the hill of the Amorites, as the Lord our God had commanded us, and we came to Cades barne. 20 And I said unto you, come ye to the Hill of the Amorites which the Lord our God doth give us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God setteth the Land before thee: Go up and possess it as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee. Shrink not, neither be afraid.
19 Then departed we from Horeb, and went through the wildernesse which is great and terrible, as you haue seene, along the way of the hil of the Amorrhytes, as the Lord our God had commaunded vs, and we came to Cades barne. 20 And I said vnto you, come ye to the Hil of the Amorrhytes which the Lord our God doth giue vs. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God setteth the Land before thee: Goe vp and possesse it as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath saide vnto thee. Shrinke not, neither be afraide.
IN this text Moses rehearseth, after what sort he had exhorted §30the people to take possession of the Land that God had promised them, and by what means he would have encouraged them to it. And that is to the end that the people should know their own unthankfulness and naughtiness, in rejecting the benefit that was offered unto them, and in that they obeyed not God, but were given too much to their own sensuality. This then which Moses doth here,§40 is as it were an upbraiding of the Jews, to the end they might know how it was long of none but themselves, that they enjoyed Gods blessing no sooner: and that they might afterward yield themselves more pliable, and not be so wilful any more in their own frowardness, but simply submit themselves to God as soon as they should hear him speak. That is in effect the intent of Moses.