A17698:1538
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 Moses allegeth not here the sins of one day: but he telleth the people that they went on still from evil to worse, even since their coming out of Egypt, know ye (sayeth he) that ye have ever been disobedient to your God, even unto this day. There had passed at that time the space of forty years, and §30that was a trial long enough,1 as is said in the fourscore and fifteenth Psalm. For there GOD showeth his inestimable patientnesse, which he used in bearing with the wilful and intolerable maliciousness of that people, by the space of forty years together. But Moses reckoneth not the years here: for that was a thing well enough known to those whom he spake unto. It was enough for him to say, reckon you how long it is ago since your GOD §40brought you out of the bondage of Egypt: he hath led you through the wilderness, he hath showed himself always present with you: & yet have you not known him of all the while. Had ye missed but once only, yet had ye well deserved to be chastised. But what? Seeing ye have had so many warnings, so many threatenings, so many rebukes, and so many punishments, yea and so many benefits also at Gods hand: and yet notwithstanding §50ye hold on still, and grow worse and worse in stead of amending: must it not needs be said that ye be utterly past recovery? Yes: for our Lord hath not left any thing undone, that might bring ye back into the right way: and yet for all that, ye have continued stubborn still, and withstood him to the uttermost. Now therefore let us mark well this text where our Lord upbraideth men, not with some one fault, but with a continual stubbornness §60against him, in holding on still in their wilfulness, insomuch that though he correct them both by deeds and words, yet are they still imbrued with their sins, and delight and welter themselves in them. For we see what is in us. Trueth it is that we would at the first sight condemn the things that are reported here of the Jews: but we must also apply all those things to our instruction, according as it is said that that people must serve us as a looking-glass to behold our selves in. Therefore let us bear in mind the things that Moses noteth here. For whereas he sayeth, ever since the day: