A17698:1994
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.
Now as touching the Ceremony, that is no more in use: it was meet that all such things should be done away at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: but yet doeth the substance of it continue with us still, so as GOD commandeth us to live peaceably one with another For seeing it is told us in his Law, that it was not lawful to eat the blood of beasts: how much the rather ought we to spare the blood of men? For men are not set in the world to make meat of; but GOD hath printed his mark upon them, and made his own image to shine forth in them, to the end that we by our sparing of them, should show what ⟨p. 416⟩reverence we bear towards GOD. There are two things which we ought chiefly to regard in maintaining concord and friendship among men.1 The one is that we be all of one kind. Thou shalt not despise thine own flesh, saith the Prophet. And in deed, we see that even the wild beasts do through a natural instinct keep company together, and every of them lives quietly with others of the same sort. Needs then must we be more perverse and less reasonable §10than the brute beasts, if we fall to devouring one an other, and play the cats and dogs, as they say. Nevertheless, considering the inordinate unruliness that is among men, how there is neither uprightness nor indifferent dealing among them: surely there needeth none other judge to condemn them of their cruelty, than the very wild beasts.
Nowe as touching the Ceremonie, that is no more in vse: it was meete that all such thinges shoulde bee doone away at the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christ: but yet doeth the substance of it continue with vs still, so as GOD commaundeth vs to liue peaceably one with another For seeing it is tolde vs in his Lawe, that it was not lawfull to eate the bloude of beastes: howe much the rather ought wee to spare the bloode of men? For men are not sette in the worlde to make meate of; but GOD hath prynted his marke vppon them, and made his owne image to shine foorth in them, to the ende that wee by our sparing of them, shoulde shewe what ⟨p. 416⟩reuerence we beare towards GOD. There are two thinges which we ought cheefly to regarde in maintaining concorde and friendship among men.