A17698:1954
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.
or else our salvation will go to wreck every minute of an hour, so as there will be no stay nor continuance.
or else our saluation wil go to wreck euery minute of an hour, so as there wil be no stay nor continuance.
Now afterward Moses addeth: God will have you thenceforth to serve him in the place which he shall have chosen to put his name in. Which is as much to say, as that we must not make this our rest; to invent this or that; but we must hold our selves in quiet, and abide under the government of our God. When we be at rest, then is our mind much troubled with unquietness, which is clean contrary to Gods meaning. For if he give us respite, so as we be not troubled with fear & terror, to what end is it? Is it not to the end that we should be so mild a to say, go to my God, if I were vexed or disquieted in mind, I had some cause to be carried here and there and to do some thing or other. I should be seeking of sundry remedies. But now that thou vouchsafest to maintain me ⟨p. 504⟩in quiet rest, it is good reason that I should be still, and suffer my self to be ruled by thy word, and to be bowed which way thou listest, without giving head to my lusts, for that were a wicked unthankfulness. That is the thing which Moses meant by that text. And the same matter concerneth us also. For whensoever God vouchsafeth to give us rest from our enemies, we ought to be so much the quieter in our selves. As for example. If we were among §10the Papists, we might be in such fear, as we should be driven to seek new shifts every day, as the poor souls are which be among them, who may well say, Alas, I have no liberty to serve God. How may I be have my self in such sort as I may not defile my self with the superstitions of these Idolaters? Thus ye •ee how these poor caitiffs are fain to seek all the ways to the wood to find some shift to swim between two streams. And no marvel though they be in that taking.