A17698:1645
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.
Thus ye see how it behoveth us to put the order in ure which Moses keepeth here, first in setting down Gods promise whereby he had adopted the people of Israel, & afterward in adding that he had delivered them out of the land of Egypt, thereby ratifying the thing that he had spoken to his servant Abraham.
Thus yee see howe it behoueth vs to put the order in vre which Moses keepeth here, first in setting down Gods promise whereby he had adopted ye people of Israel, & afterward in adding yt he had deliuered them out of the lande of Egypt, thereby ratifying the thing that he had spoken to his seruaunt Abraham.
Now he addeth that God should not have an eye to the peoples stubbornness, wickedness, or offence. This is not added without cause. For when we come to pray God to perform his promise, and to bring the grace of his adoption to his end: in the mean while our own consciences upbraid us, so as we see well that we be guilty before him: it is enough to foreclose the way to ⟨p. 416⟩our prayers. For when we offend God, we break his covenant as much as in us lies, and we stop him from performing of his promise. To be short, we deserve to be given over of the Lord, when we keep not faith and troth towards him. For this cause doth Moses say here, Lord have not an eye to the stubbornness of this people. So then, it is not enough for us to pray God to go through with the thing that he shall have begun in us, and to bring his grace to perfection: but §10we must expressly pray him, that although he find faults and offences in us, (as indeed the number of them is infinite): yet that he forbear not to take us still for his people: and that although we deserve to be forsaken of him for our sins inasmuch as we have broken his covenant, yet notwithstanding he cease not to keep promise with us still, and to make us feel the fruit thereof, and to forgive our sins in such wise, as we may never cease to continue in his adoption:§20