A17698:1535
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.
And therefore must we continue in the said endeavour, until we be quite rid of all the presumptuousness of our flesh. For pride is the sin that will be last corrected, and it is the root of all other offences. Thus ye see what we have to remember upon this text where Moses saith, Remember thy self, and forget not the faults which thou hast committed.
And therefore must we continue in the sayde endeuour, vntill wee be quite ridde of all the presumptuousnesse of our fleshe. For pryde is the sinne that will bee last corrected, and it is the roote of all other offences. Thus yee see what wee haue to remember vpon this text where Moses sayth, Rremember thy selfe, and forgette not the faultes which thou hast committed.
Now he addeth, Howe thou diddest anger thy God in the wilderness. I have told ye briefly already, that the people were so much the less to be excused, for that they having known the wonders which GOD had wrought at their coming out of Egypt, ceased not to be so malicious and froward, as to spit out their poison against GOD. If they had done it afore, truly yet they had been worthy of blame: but yet had their sin been more tolerable. But now had God uttered his mighty arm in delivering those wretches out of the cruel bondage wherein they were: and yet notwithstanding, even after Gods working in that wise, and after they had seen the apparent signs of his majesty, they cease not to strive against him still: and must it not needs be that the devil possesseth them, and that they be as good as bewitched with their own malice? So then it is not without cause that Moses noteth here the place of the wilderness, to the end that the people might be the more humbled, and feel the greatness and hugeness of the offences which they had committed, forasmuch as they were all at one point as if GOD had not uttered himself unto them at all. For it may fall out that silly souls which never tasted of Gods trueth nor of his works, shall overshoot themselves and be carried away. But seeing that GOD came so near unto the Jews and told them, I am your Saviour, I take you into my protection, I will make you to feel my power as though I came down from heaven in mine own person, and