A17698:1873
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.
for they be far unlike. When God saith, He that doth these things: he bindeth not himself to us but with an if, namely that we discharge our selves by performing his Law; and that, not only in part, but throughout and perfectly. But no man is able to do that; ⟨p. 481⟩and therefore ye see we be shut out from all hope, and we cannot look that the promise should be of force any more towards us, because of our default. For God continueth always faithful, but we suffer not his goodness to come unto us. Now when he seeth us so bereft of all his benefits; he findeth another now remedy for us, which is this:1 Lo here my son who is universal heir both of heaven and earth; he holdeth all the world in subjection, he hath the whole §10fullness of the Godhead enclosed in him, my image shineth most perfectly in him: which is showed forth in his Gospel: and therefore they that are members of his body, are made partakers of all the benefits which he hath in him. That is the way for the promises to have their effect and force in us, and not to look simply to the doctrine of the law. For when God said, I will give you the land: to whom spake he? To all the people. But yet with condition, if ye §20keep my commandments. And that was made void. As how? Because the people were disobedient, and kept not covenant with God. And so ye see that the whole covenant was broken, so as God was set free again, and no longer bound unto them, because it was tied to a condition. What doeth he then? He sends us a king to whom he sayeth▪ I will give thee the land for thine inheritance. He useth the self same words that are set down here by Moses. I will §30give thee the land (saith he) for thine inheritance, from the wilderness unto mount Libanus, & from the river Euphrates to the great sea. And to whom doth God give it? To David & Solomon. True it is that he had given the same land afore to all the people; but the people were banished from it through their own fault. And was it then but for one only person? was it the worthiness of David or Solomon that made God willing to give them the thing which he had §40