A17698:1927
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.
3.4.5 But look what place soever &c. 6 And thither shall ye bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave offerings of your hands, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your kine and sheep. 7 And there shall you eat before the Lord your God, and be merry both you and your household in all things that you set your hand unto, wherein the Lord your God shall have blessed you.
3.4.5 But looke what place soeuer &c. 6 And thither shall yee bring your burnt offeringes, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heaue offerings of your handes, and your vowes, and your freewill offeringes, and the firstborne of your kine and sheepe. 7 And there shall you eat before the Lorde your God, and be merrie both you and your household in all things that you set your hande vnto, wherein the Lorde your God shall haue blessed you.
IN the Doctrine that I have delivered unto you already, there are two parts. The one is that God will have all things utterly rooted out wherewith Idols have been served. And good reason hath he so to do, because he seeth the frailty of men: for if we have never so small an occasion, by and by we be miscarried. For Idolatry §50is so rooted in our hearts, that we have need as it were to pluck ourselves from it by force: and what will then become of us, when we be drawn to it? Let us mark well therefore, that forasmuch as we be inclined to superstition, if we intend to serve GOD, we must put away all things that may turn us from the right way, & from the simplicity which God commandeth us. And men cannot stand too much upon their guard in that case. True it is that a number of men §60do ween themselves to be so strong, that although they be never so much conversant among the superstitions of the unbelievers, yet they shall not be attainted with them: But God is wiser than we. And therefore let us remember the lesson that he telleth us: namely that we must shun all the uperstitions of the heathen and the misbelievers, or else his service will be marred among us by and by. But forasmuch as I have declared that part already, I will stand no longer upon it.