A17698:2291
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.
16 And if he happen to say to thee, I will not depart from thee because I love thee and thy house, by reason that he findeth himself well with thee: 17 Then shalt thou take an Awl, and bore him through the ear to the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And likewise shalt thou do to thy woman servant. 18 Let it not grieve thee to let him go free from thee: for he hath served thee six years as a hireling of double wages. And the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy doings. ⟨p. 591⟩19 All the first borne males that breed of thy cattle and of thy flocks, thou shalt sanctify to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not labour with the first borne of thy kine, nor shear the first borne of thy sheep. 20 But thou shalt eat them, thou and thy household from year to year in the presence of the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord will choose. 21 But if there be any blemish in it, so as it be lame or blind, or have any evil fault in it: thou shalt not offer it to the Lord thy God: 22 But shalt eat it within thy gates, as well the unclean as the clean, both alike, as the fallow deer and the Red deer. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood of it, but shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
16 And if hee happen to say to thee, I will not depart from thee because I loue thee and thy house, by reason that he findeth himselfe well with thee: 17 Then shalt thou take an Aule, and bore him through the eare to the doore, and hee shalbee thy bondman for euer. And likewise shalt thou do to thy womanseruaunt. 18 Let it not grieue thee to let him go free from thee: for he hath serued thee sixe yeares as a hyreling of double wages. And the Lorde thy God will blesse thee in all thy dooings. ⟨p. 591⟩19 All the first borne males that breede of thy cattell and of thy flockes, thou shalt sanctifie to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not labour with the first borne of thy kyne, nor shere the first borne of thy sheepe. 20 But thou shalt eate them, thou and thy houshold from yere to yere in the presence of the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lorde will choose. 21 But if there be any blemish in it, so as it be lame or blinde, or haue any euill fault in it: thou shalt not offer it to the Lorde thy God: 22 But shalt eate it within thy gates, as well the vncleane as the cleane, both alike, as the fallow deere and the Red deere. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the bloud of it, but shalt powre it vpon the ground as water.