A17698:2107
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.
Yea, but it were meet for them that they should give ear unto God. For did he forgo his authority when he said that we should neither ad too nor diminish from the things that he hath spoken,1 as we have seen already heretofore? For thereby doeth he show at what end it behooveth us to begin. Then is it a hellish kind of dealing, when men stay not upon the things that GOD commandeth, and that are contained in his word, and yet notwithstanding do take upon them to burden other men with what laws they list.
Yea, but it were meete for them that they shoulde giue eare vnto God. For did hee forgo his authoritie when hee sayde that we should neither ad too nor diminish from the thinges that hee hath spoken,1 as wee haue seene alreadie heretofore? For thereby doeth he shewe at what ende it behooueth vs to beginne. Then is it a hellish kinde of dealing, when men stay not vppon the thinges that GOD commaundeth, and that are conteyned in his worde, and yet notwithstanding doe take vppon them to burthen other men with what lawes they list.
If a man say that we must serve God according to his commandments, and not depend upon those that take upon them to enjoin laws to mens souls, and that all such inventions are ⟨p. 544⟩foolish: What? Shall the traditions of our mother holy Church be so rejected? That were a deadly and intolerable crime. If a man speak of the Sacraments, & say that baptism ought to be ministered in a known tongue, that men may understand to what end our Lord Jesus ordained it, what fruit it yieldeth, and how to use it a right: and moreover that men may perceive that baptism sendeth us to our Lord Jesus Christ, and hath no power of it self further than