A17698:2153
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 this shall be done, if we be not troubled and grieved out of measure for the death of any of our kinsfolk or friends, or for any other affliction §30that befalleth us, but that we suffer God to use our lives as he listeth, to dispose of them according to his good will. Thus ye see in effect what we have to remember upon the first point that is contained here.
And this shall be doone, if wee bee not troubled and greeued out of measure for the death of any of our kinsefolke or friendes, or for any other affliction §30that befalleth vs, but that we suffer God to vse our liues as hee listeth, to dispose of them according to his good will. Thus yee see in effect what we haue to remember vppon the first point that is conteined heere.
Now as touching the second, Moses saith, that the Jews must not eat of all manner of meats, but that they must have a care to discern between the clean beasts and the unclean. And afterward he nameth the beasts, whereof it was lawful for §40them to eat: & also the several kinds which it was not lawful for them to touch. And to be short, he saith that the beasts which chaw Cud, (that is to say; which keep in their mouths the last of their meat, to chaw it again) are clean, so as they might eat of them, conditionally that those beasts do also cleave the hoof. Now, to seek here for nice points, as what this should mean, that the hooves should be cloven, or that they should chaw the cud; were no matter to be greatly stood upon.§50 And as for them that have pried into the matter to fetch the new & the old Testament out of the beasts cleaving of their hooves, & have told us that we must needs put a difference betwixt them; & moreover, that we must chew our cud, that is to say feed upon the doctrine again and again, that we may the better digest it, because it is the food of our souls: it is too too curious. For if it be so, what do the scales of the fishes betoken? There will be occasion of seeking everywhere, and we