A17698:2295
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 here we have an example that masters ought to behave themselves gently, for […] ⟨p. 594⟩or if he serve me amiss, I can send him away, and that were more for my profit. And therefore it seemeth prejudicial to my right to give reward now to a slave. A man might allege after that fashion, as men are always subtle in seeking of starting holes. If the case concern either their profit or their loss; they can be brought to no uprightness or reason. For this cause our Lord saith here, Howe now? Think ye not that a slave doeth, yea double the service §10of an hired servant? Yes: for if a man hire a servant for wages, if he find him not meat and drink, he must give him so much the more money, that he may find himself after his own liking. And again, if a man find him, he will look for a large pittance; and yet he will grudge at it and say; this is no fare meet for a man that takes wages. The man then that is hired for wages, must be maintained after a more courteous and liberal fashion, than a slave.§20 Moreover, when the hired man hath done his days work, he is dispatched, and he goes his way to bed till the next morning that he come again to his work. But the slave is in a harder case. For the similitude which our Lord Jesus maketh in Saint Luke,1 is taken of the common fashion that reigned in those days. True it is that he treateth of a far greater matter, to show how we be bound unto God. But yet doeth he allege this similitude, saying: Behold,§30 if one of you have a bondservant, whom you send to labour in your vineyard or in your field, when this servant cometh home at night stark weary of his labouring to do you service; I ask you whether his master will say to him, Come sit thou down thy turn, & take here my place, and I will serve thee. Nay, his master will say further to him, Sirrah, go fetch me such a thing, and go do such a thing. And the servant dares not be so bold as to §40reply, why so? I have laboured in the field all day, and must I now take pains still when I am come home at night? Ye see then to what purpose it is said now that the reward of a slave is double.