A17698:1525
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.
WE have seen already yesterday,§30 how Moses warned the people that they should not boast of themselves when they were come into the Land of promise: and how he told them that they had not obtained that benefit for their own deserts, but through Gods mere grace and goodness. We have seen the three reasons that he alleged for the same. Howbeit for as much as it is hard to bring §40men to humility, so as they may know themselves as they be in deed, and be utterly ashamed of themselves, not attributing any thing to their own power, but depending altogether upon Gods free mercy: Moses addeth a plain demonstration and sayeth: If ye allege your own worthiness and deserts: Ye be a stiffenecked people, even such a one as can not bow under the yoke and obedience of your GOD. Whereby it appeareth that you be not worthy §50to be chosen of your GOD, or to have such an heritage allotted you, or to be preferred before other nations, forasmuch as ye have not been any better than they. And he rehearsed the things that were yet fresh in remembrance and the rebellions which they had committed in the wilderness, concluding thereupon that they were the less to be excused, because they had forgotten the miracles which GOD had wrought in delivering them from the bondage §60of Egypt: for that made their sin the haynouser. Remember therefore (sayeth he) how ye provoked God to wrath, while ye were in the wilderness. And he addeth that the people did it not for once only: but that they went on still from evil to worse, and never ceased their hardening of themselves in their wilfulness: and therefore they deserved full well to be utterly cut off. And so we must needs conclude, that GOD used exceeding great mercy, in that he reserved that people to himself, and brought them into their promised heritage, and that he gave them the enjoying and possession thereof of his own mere goodness. That is the effect of the thing that is contained here.
WE haue seene already yesterday,§30 howe Moses warned the people that they shoulde not boast of themselues when they were come into the Lande of promise: and howe hee tolde them that they had not obtained that benefite for their owne desertes, but through Gods meere grace and goodnesse. Wee haue seene the three reasons that he alleaged for the same. Howebeit for as much as it is harde to bring