Sermons upon Deuteronomy

ye see then that our wits are very short in remembering the way wherethrough God hath led us.¹ As touching goods, they serve us not to stir us up to love our God, and to put our trust in him & to call upon him. As touching adversity, it serveth not to humble us, nor to make us renounce the world, nor to cause us to bethink us of our sins, that we might be sorry for them and crave forgiveness: but rather to the clean contrary. Now then seeing we be so faulty, we have the more need to mark well this text, & the exhortation that Moses maketh to us here, that we may remember the way whereby God leadeth us. So then, let us daily have an eye to the things whereof we shall have had experience during this transitory life. How hath God dealt with me ever since I was borne? I have waded through ten hundred thousand miseries, & he hath delivered me from them all: & ought not this to make me think him to be my father, and to put my self wholly into his protection? Again, I have bin cumbered a number of ways: and God hath always had an eye to me, & brought me home again to himself. How oftentimes have I tempted him, casting my self up to the spoil, and running into the snares of Satan? And yet my God would not let me perish. Now ought not I to perceive his goodness therein? Ought I not to betake my self to his keeping with the surer trust? Moreover my God hath visited me with a great sort of afflictions: and should I still rebel against him? Shall I not be tamed for all the stripes that I have received at his rods? Shall God have lost his labour in chastising me? After this manner must we bethink us, both in our prosperity and in adversity: and that not for once and away, but with such imprinting of it in our hearts, as we may have it so inregistred there that it may never be blotted out. That is the thing which we have to remember upon this text of Moses.

ye see thē that our wittes are very short in remēbring the way wherethrough God hath led vs.¹ As touching goods, they serue vs not to stirre vs vp to loue our God, and to put our trust in him & to call vppon him. As touching aduersitie, it serueth not to humble vs, nor to make vs renounce ye world, nor to cause vs to bethinke vs of our sinnes, that wee might be sory for them and craue forgiuenesse: but rather to the cleane contrarie. Now then seeing we be so faultie, wee haue the more neede to marke well this text, & the exhortation that Moses maketh to vs here, that we may remember the way whereby God leadeth vs. So then, let vs dayly haue an eye to ye things wherof we shal haue had experience during this transitory lyfe. How hath God dealt with mee euer since I was borne? I haue waded through ten hundred thowsand miseries, & he hath deliuered me from them all: & ought not this to make me thinke him to be my father, and to put my selfe wholy into his protection? Againe, I haue bin cumbred a number of wayes: and God hath alwayes had an eye to me, & brought me home againe to himselfe. How oftentimes haue I tempted him, casting my selfe vp to the spoyle, and running into the snares of Satan? And yet my God would not let me perish. Nowe ought not I to perceiue his goodnesse therein? Ought I not to betake my selfe to his keeping with the surer trust? Moreouer my God hath visited mee with a great sorte of afflictions: and shoulde I stil rebell against him? Shall I not bee tamed for all the stripes that I haue receiued at his roddes? Shall God haue lost his labor in chastising me? After this maner must we bethinke vs, both in our prosperitie and in aduersitie: and that not for once and away, but with such imprinting of it in our hearts, as we may haue it so inregistred there yt it may neuer be blotted out. That is the thing which wee haue to remember vppon this text of Moses.