A17698:2108
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.
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 §10God worketh by his holy spirit, which appeareth when we have an eye to him that is the very substance of baptism: and that all the trifling toys ought to be put away wherewith men have mocked God to the full, namely, the ceremonies of their own inventing which are but utter corruptions of baptism, as their spittle, their salt, & all their other may games which they play withal: If a man talk so of their stuff, he must be put to death for it out of hand. And §20why? Fie upon him, he is a rank heretic, he is not to be borne with. Yea, but they should see first whether it be an heresy or no. For by that means they make God him self an heretic for want of due examination; and what a dealing is that? If a man say that our Lords supper ought to be received according to the rule which he him self did give us, that is to wit, that we should communicate together, so as the bread might be a warrant to us that we §30be truly become partakers of his body, and the wine a warrant that we be partakers of his blood, and consequently that the Mass is an abomination of the devils own devising, for that therein the Christian are so far off from communicating together, that one man separates himself from all the rest of the company: behold, then must excommunication serve as a sauce for all meats.
If a man say that wee must serue God according to his commaundementes, and not depend vpon those that take vpon thē to enioyne lawes to mens soules, and that all such inuentions are ⟨p. 544⟩