A17698:1448
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.
a good heart to call upon God, and commit our selves unto him, assuring our selves that he will never fail us. That is the care which God willeth us to have. Nevertheless we must also put the thing in practise that is spoken here: that is to wit, that God will give us sufficient to serve our turn, so as if we want cote or shoes, he will either provide us of them, or else make one pair of soles to do us more service than a dozen, when it pleaseth him. And we may see this with §10our eyes. For they that are warmest clad, fail not for all that to be as it were half dead through cold: and on the other side, whereas it seemeth that poor folk should starve and be frozen with ye a hundred times [ere the year go about:] God warmeth them, yea and they be so preserved, as though he kept them in a stove, or as though some Physician were always at hand with them, ministering good remedies to them to save them from the cold. After that §20manner doeth God work. And that is the cause why that in the time of the Law, God commanded that all new things should be blessed,1 to the end that men should think upon him, & consider thus with themselves: Go to, I have a new garment, and I must look that I thank him for it which gave it me. For seeing it pleaseth my God to clothe me thus, and to give me this apparel to use it as mine own: it becometh me to acknowledge that it is of his goodness and §30mercy that I am so provided for. Ye see then, that the intent why he caused all things to be dedicated unto him which men should occupy: was that they should acknowledge the giver of them, and that if he blessed not the helps which he had given them, all was nothing and noughtwoorth. And as for now adays, although we have not the like Ceremony: yet must we hold still the truth thereof.
a good heart to call vpon God, and commit our selues vnto him, assuring our selues that he will neuer faile vs. That is the care which God willeth vs to haue. Neuerthelesse wee must also put the thing in practise that is spoken here: that is to wit, that God will giue vs sufficient to serue our turne, so as if we want cote or shooes, he will either prouide vs of them, or else make one paire of soles to doe vs more seruice than a doosen, when it pleaseth him. And we may see this with