A17698:2105
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.
But nowadays if a man say that we ought to call upon none but only God in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that we should not fetch any further compasses after the imaginations of men; by praying to the virgin Mary or other Saints deceased to be our patrons and advocates; but that we ought to hold our selves contented with Jesus Christ, to whom that office is given by God his Father: By and by they cry out, to the fire with him. And how so? It is the pure doctrine of the holy Scripture. Yea, but the church of Rome admitteth it not.
But nowadayes if a man say that wee ought to call vppon none but onely God in the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and that wee shoulde not fetche any further compasses after the imaginations of men; by praying to the virgine Marie or other Saintes deceassed to bee our patrones and aduocates; but that wee ought to holde our selues contented with Iesus Christ, to whome that office is giuen by God his Father: By and by they crye out, to the fire with him. And howe so? It is the pure doctrine of the holy Scripture. Yea, but the church of Rome admitteth it not.
If a man say, we must worship God after a spiritual manner, without making any puppets to him, and that the breaking of the rule which our Lord Jesus Christ hath given us, is utter abomination: out upon it, that's a foul heresy, at leastwise by the judgement of the popedom. But yet for all that, the Scripture beareth it. If a man say we have no freewill to do good, but that we be utterly corrupted; and that if there be any goodness in us, it proceedeth of Gods mere grace and mercy, so that our going forward towards the mark, is because we be renewed by his holy Ghost, and yet nevertheless that we be weak, and had need to flee continually for refuge to the forgiveness which GOD promiseth us, and whereby we be reconciled unto him, whereunto we attain not by our own deserts and satisfactions, but must be fain to be purged by the bloodshed of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by that means we obtain salvation: if these things (say I) be alleged: by and by he must be haled to the stake. And why? Because all this is condemned by their Synagogues.