A17698:212
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.
And besides this, Moses noteth here a double circumstance, whereby the people were convicted of gods mighty working in their behalf. For (saith he) He hath fought for you in Egypt, yea even before your eyes. As if he should have said, that the miracles which God had wrought, were not darksome nor done in hudther mudder, but so openly, and apparently, as the people could not say, we know not how the case standeth. God then showed himself ⟨p. 40⟩after a visible manner in that behalf, so as ye cannot but know that he reached out his arm. That is the first of the two circumstances.
And besides this, Moses noteth here a double circumstance, whereby the people were conuicted of gods mighty working in their behalfe. For (sayth he) He hath fought for you in Egypt, yea euen before your eyes. As if he should haue sayd, that the miracles which God had wrought, were not darksome nor done in hudther mudther, but so openly, and apparantly, as the people could not say, we knowe not how the case standeth. God then shewed himselfe ⟨p. 40⟩after a visible manner in that behalfe, so as yee cannot but knowe that he reached out his arme. That is the first of the two circumstances.
The other is this where he addeth, that from the time of the peoples deliverance, God had maintained them, yea and that with such kindness and gentleness, as a father that had borne his child in his arms could not have done more for him. Now these two points belong to us. For they be the too means whereby God procureth and furthereth §10our salvation, until he have brought it to full perfection. On the one side he fighteth for us: for we shall never be without enemies as hath bin declared already. If we be not acquainted with God, the devil will reign peaceably over us, and we shall delight to be under his tyranny, as they that are naturally given thereunto. But if God call us to him: then shall we feel the devil utterly against us, and we shall see the world inflamed with deadly hatred