A17698:1893
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.
Truly as in respect of our own wit & reason, if we intend to come unto god, we must worship him with all humility, & remember that his secrets surmount our understanding. But yet here §30withal it behoveth us to stand upon so sure a ground, even by knowledge; as our own consciences may bear record of it, & we be able to say with S John,1 we wot well that we be the children of God. Lo here what the true Religion is. It is not an unadvised zeal, or a liking that men cast to this thing or that: but a sure known doctrine grounded upon Gods trueth, wherethrough we be able to say that it is he which hath spoken to us, & that he is a faithful witness of the things that are for §40our welfare & salvation And again, whatsoever we allege, we shall always abide convicted of our malice. So that when we have once been taught the word of God, if we afterward worship gods whom we have not known, if we swerve aside to any superstition, or if we continue not in the pure simplicity of the holy scripture: surely we shall justly be accused to have had strange Gods, & to have bin forgers of them, as folk that love the untruth better than the trueth. According whereunto §50S. Paul speaking of all such as obeyed not the Gospel,2 saith it is good reason they should be stricken with horrible blindness, & that forasmuch as they honoured not the creator, it was meet that they should become underlings to the creatures, that is to say, to the things which they had dreamed in their own fond brain & foolish fancies. Now then seeing that our God hath taught us, let us learn to hold our selves at a stay to his word, & to understand in what manner he hath showed himself §60unto us; & let us benefit our selves by all the records which he giveth us, & beware that we wander not one way or other, ne follow not our own leasings. For there will be no excuse for such as would not be certified of God when he was ready to do it.
Truely as in respect of our own wit & reason, if we intend to come vnto god, we must worship him wt all humilitie, & remēber that his secrets surmount our vnderstāding. But yet here