A17698:1613
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.
Ye see then that we must high us to our Lord Jesus Christ, assuring our selves that that prerogative and honour belongeth to none but only him. Yet notwithstanding this saying of S. Pauls is true also,1 that all such as preach the §40Gospel are spiritual ministers, [that is to say] they set not forth a dead letter and unprofitable doctrine, but withal they bring Gods spirit. And how is that? Is it by their own breathing? No: For our Lord Jesus Christ did well show by his breathing upon his disciples,2 that the holy Ghost proceedeth from none but himself alone. But Saint Pauls meaning is, that Jesus Christ worketh continually, to the end we should believe in him. True it is that we §50shall not see him here personally present: how then shall we be sure, that he writeth Gods Law in our hearts? Let us not allege any of those things. For seeing that Jesus Christ is the end and perfection of the law,3 yea and the very life of it (as I said afore:) let us not think but that he printeth Gods Law in our hearts by the preaching of the Gospel. So then let us not doubt but GOD will perform that grace in us. And although the party that §60preacheth unto us be but a mortal man, and the words which he uttereth unto us with his mouth, do vanish anon after away in the air: yet let not us doubt but Jesus Christ will for all that do his duty,4 as Saint Paul declareth in the same place. And in deed, the faithful have experience thereof. For we should never have so much as any thought at all of coming unto GOD,5 or of doing any good: unless we were fully resolved of this ground, namely that it behooveth us to be throughly settled and constant: all the which proceedeth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore whensoever we feel that GOD draweth us unto him, let us understand that he showeth us how we be members of the body of his son, because we have the holy Ghost by whom we be altered and reformed,