A17698:1494
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.
Hearken O Israel, This day shalt thou go over Jordan, to enter possession upon Nations greater and mightier than thy self, and upon Cities that are huge and walled up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, even the children of the Enakims whom thou hast known, and of whom thou hast heard say, who is he that can stand against the children of Enacke? 3 Know thou therefore this day, that the Lord thy God goeth before thee as a burning fire: he will destroy them and subdue them before thy face, he will drive them out and rid them away, as the Lord hath said to thee. 4 And when the Lord thy God shall have cast them out before thy face: say not thou in thy heart, The Lord hath brought me into this land to possess it, for my righteousness sake: for the Lord hath driven out these Nations before thy face for their wickedness. 5 It is not through thine own righteousness or for the rightness of thy heart, that thou art come to the possession of their Land. But for the wickedness of those nations, hath the Lord thy God driven them out before thy face: and to perform the word which the Lord thy God sware to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Know thou therefore that it is not for thine own righteousness that the Lord thy God hath given thee this good land to possess: for thou art a stifnecked people.
HEarken O Israel, This day shalt thou goe ouer Iordan, to enter possession vpon Nations greater and mightier than thy selfe, and vpon Cities that are houge and walled vp to heauen, 2 A people greate and tall, euen the children of the Enakims whome thou hast knowen, and of whom thou hast heard say, who is hee that can stand against the children of Enacke? 3 Knowe thou therefore this day, that the Lord thy God goeth before thee as a burning fire: he will destroy them and subdue them before thy face, he will driue them out and rid them away, as the Lord hath said to thee. 4 And when the Lord thy God shall haue cast them out before thy face: say not thou in thy heart, The Lord hath brought mee into this lande to possesse it, for my righteousnesse sake: for the Lorde hath driuen out these Nations before thy face for their wickednesse. 5 It is not through thine owne righteousnesse or for the rightnesse of thy heart, that thou art come to the possession of their Land. But for the wickednesse of those nations, hath the Lord thy God driuen them out before thy face: and to performe the word which the Lord thy God sware to thy fathers Abraham, Isaak, and Iacob. 6 Knowe thou therefore that it is not for thine owne righteousnesse that the Lorde thy God hath giuen thee this good land to possesse: for thou art a stifnecked people.