A17698:1780
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 here we have as it were a looking glass, wherein to see how God raiseth up his Church, according also to this his speaking of it by his prophet Isaiah,1 Look back to the quarry of sto•e (saith he) whereout of the were hewen, have an eye to the womb of your mother Sarah. Look upon Abraham your father: was not he alone? yes, & yet have I now made you many in number, as the thing it self declareth. In that place God likeneth Sarah's womb to a quarry of stone. See here (saith he) from whence ye be come. Howe is it possible that such a multitude of people as you be now grown unto, should be drawn out of one quarry of stone? And yet notwithstanding, from thence have I fetched you, all of you are
And here wee haue as it were a looking glasse, wherein to see how God raiseth vp his Church, according also to this his speaking of it by his prophet Esay,1 Loke backe to the quarrie of sto•e (saith he) whereout of ye were hewen, haue an eye to the womb of your mother Sara. Loke vpō Abraham your father: was not he alone? yes, & yet haue I now made you manie in number, as ye thing it selfe declareth. In that place God likeneth Saraes womb to a quarrie of stone. See here (saith he) from whence ye be come. Howe is it possible that such a multitude of people as you be nowe growen vnto, shoulde be drawen out of one quarrie of stone? And yet notwithstanding, from thence haue I fetched you, all of you are
but only answer: Let GOD be obeyed, according to the prayers which he hath commanded folk to make with this solemn protestation Amen,