A17698:1540
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.
Yea and when GOD had given them drink, and made a stream to gush out of the rock: it would not suffice them neither. For the Manna was too unsavoury a food for them, they would needs have variety. They had still Manna & Manna, & they were glutted with it: & yet notwithstanding it was a good & savourly nourishment.1 ⟨p. 384⟩Besides this, they were not driven to till the ground, they were not fain to trouble themselves much with the earning of their living: for God gave them both meat and drink: and yet notwithstanding they cried out upon him still, Give, give: Their lusts were so inordinate, that they provoked Gods vengeance against themselves, by murmuring against him for want of flesh. Lo hear a marvellous thanklessness. Well then, they had flesh: but that was to choke §10them even with their delicate morsels, insomuch that while the meat was yet in their throats, Gods wrath was so kindled upon them, that they payed very deer for their shot, because they were not contented with the inestimable good that God had done them. For the Manna was a heavenly food, yea and a food of Angels as it is said in the Psalm.2 But although they felt Gods punishments, and both saw and felt the vengeance that overwhelmed §20them: yet notwithstanding they ceased not to provoke him to anger new again, after other fashions, sometimes by committing whoredom, sometimes by banding against Moses and Aaron, sometime by murmuring, and sometime by railing. To be short, there was neither end nor measure of their doings. And therefore not without cause doeth Moses say unto them here, Bethink ye of the great number of faults which ye have committed ever since the day §30that ye came out of the land of Egypt, even unto this present time that God hath brought you into this Land.
Yea and when GOD had giuen them drinke, and made a streame to gushe out of the rocke: yt would not suffice them neither. For the Manna was too vnsauorie a food for them, they would needs haue varietie. They had stil Māna & Manna, & they were glutted with it: & yet notwithstanding it was a good & sauorly nourishment.