A17698:1719
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.
as if he should say, God can find a kingdom large & great enough, & of such wideness as he shall not need to come borrow some little ⟨p. 438⟩corner in the world to lodge in: he needeth not to seek in dark caves for any thing wherewith to set forth his glory. Men are but worms; they be but like frogs in a puddle of mire; and shall God come down here below, to make his glory shine there? Hath he not his heavenly power, to show there above that he hath sovereign dominion over all creatures? Must he be fain to stand to our courtesy for the doing of any thing? So then, we see that men must not only §10become drunken & beastlike, but also stark devils through pride, if this declaration of Moses make them not to stoop, & to acknowledge it to be good reason that God should be glorified every where, and that they ought not to reserve to themselves any whit of the praise of their own salvation or welfare.
as if he should say, God can find a kingdō large & gret ynough, & of such widnes as he shal not need to com borow some litle ⟨p. 438⟩corner in the world to lodge in: he needeth not to seeke in darke caues for any thing wherewith to set foorth his glorye. Men are but wormes; they be but like frogges in a puddle of myre; and shal God come downe here belowe, to make his glorie shine there? Hath he not his heauenly power, to shewe there aboue that he hath soueraine dominion ouer all creatures? Must he be faine to stande to our courtesie for the dooing of any thing? So then, we see that men must not onely §10become drunken & beastlike, but also starke diuels through pride, if this declaration of Moses make them not to stoope, & to acknowledge it to be good reasō that God should be glorified euery where, and that they ought not to reserue to themselues any whit of the praise of their owne saluation or welfare.