A17698:143
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.
Nevertheless he interlaceth also another §50matter therewithal: which is, that he telleth the people they be so much the less to be excused, because they had had experience of Gods goodness, in that he had led them with his mighty hand. For, their passing through the horrible and dreadful desert, was not without the assistance of a singular and unaccustomed power of God: where as they notwithstanding forgetting the goodness which they had felt, and which they ought to have borne in mind for ever, did §60grudge at God, and became wilful, and would not go forward when he was ready to have led them to the end. And that is the cause why Moses saith expressly, that they had seen. As if he should say, you wrought even against your natural senses, when you went not on as your God commanded you. The reason is this. So long as you suffered your selves to be governed by his hand, and so long as you walked in the way that he appointed you: did you not even see with your eyes, that he made you to overcome all hardness? Was not the wilderness wherethrough you passed, a very gulf? And yet notwithstanding you scaped out of it. And how came that to pass, but by the wonderful working of your God among you? Seeing that you heard his voice, you were sure that he was come among you. Then said I unto you, now is there no more for us to do, but to enjoy the land which our God hath assigned to us for our heritage. Go, let us fight, our God hath promised it us, and he will not disappoint us. We know he hath wrought mightily for us hitherto, and surely he will go through with his work. These and such other things did I allege unto you: And yet you followed not them as you ought to have done. Wherefore acknowledge your unthankfulness in that you refused to enter into the inheritance which God had promised to your fathers, and which he hath prepared for you.
Neuerthelesse hee interlaceth also another §50matter therewithall: which is, that he telleth the people they be so much the lesse to be excused, because they had had experience of Gods goodnesse, in that he had led them with his mightie hande. For, their passing through the horrible and dreadfull desert, was not without the assistance of a singular and vnaccustomed power of God: where as they notwithstanding forgetting the goodnesse which they had felt, and which they ought to haue borne in minde for euer, did §60