A17698:2168
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.
21 Ye shall not eat of any dead body, but thou shalt give it to the Stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it: or else thou shalt sell it to a stranger: For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seeth a kid in his dams milk. ⟨p. 559⟩22 Thou shalt give the tenth of all the increase of thy seed which groweth yearly on thy Land: 23 And in the place which the Lord thy GOD will choose to put his name in, thou shalt eat before him the tithe of thy grain, and of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first borne of thy kine, and of thy sheep, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
21 Ye shal not eat of anie dead bodie, but thou shalt giue it to the Straunger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it: or else thou shalt sell it to a straunger: For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seeth a kidde in his dammes milke. ⟨p. 559⟩22 Thou shalt giue the tenth of all the increase of thy seede which groweth yeerely on thy Land: 23 And in the place which the Lorde thy GOD will choose to put his name in, thou shalt eate before him the tythe of thy grayne, and of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first borne of thy kine, and of thy sheepe, that thou maist learne to feare the Lord thy God alwayes.
Yesterday I told you the cause §10why God forbade the people of old time to eat of some certain kinds of meats. For in as much as we be fed & sustained by his hand, it is good reason that we should use his creatures purely, and that we should have leave of him, so as every man take not leave to do what he listeth, but what Gods word permitteth us to do. Therewithal I showed also, that although the ceremony be no more used §20nowadays, nor we any more bound thereto as the fathers of old time were which lived under the law: yet notwithstanding the doctrine thereof ceaseth not to be profitable for us. And hereby we be done to understand, that it is not lawful for us to eat or drink without faith, (as S. Paul speaketh of it in the xiiii. to the Romans) that is to say,