A17698:2308
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.
Thou shalt keep the month of new fruits, that thou mayest keep Passover to the Lord thy God. For in the month of new fruits the Lord thy God brought thee out of the Land of Egypt. 2 And thou shalt sacrifice the Passover to the Lord thy GOD, even ⟨p. 597⟩Sheep and Oxen, in the place which the Lord thy GOD will choose to put his name therein. 3 Thou shalt eat no leaven bread in that feast: Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, even the bread, of sorrow. For thou camest in haste out of the Land of Egypt: to the end thou be mindful of the day of thy departing out of the Land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall no leaven be seen in thy house, during the seven days in all thy coasts. Also ye shall not leave of the flesh that is sacrificed from the evening of the former day till the next morning.
THou shalt keepe the moneth of new fruites, that thou maiest keepe Passeouer to the Lorde thy God. For in the moneth of new fruites the Lorde thy God brought thee out of the Lande of Egypt. 2 And thou shalt sacrifice the Passeouer to the Lorde thy GOD, euen ⟨p. 597⟩Sheepe and Oxen, in the place which the Lorde thy GOD will choose to put his name therein. 3 Thou shalt eate no leauen breade in that feast: Seuen dayes shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, euen the bread, of sorowe. For thou camest in haste out of the Lande of Egypt: to the ende thou be mindefull of the day of thy departing out of the Lande of Egypt all the dayes of thy life. 4 And there shal no leauen be seene in thy house, during the seuen daies in all thy coastes. Also ye shall not leaue of the fleshe that is sacrificed from the euening of the former day till the next morning.
This present chapter treateth of the three feasts which God ordained among the Jews: that §20is to wit, the feast of Easter or passover, the feast of Pentecost or Whitsuntide, & the feast of Tabernacles or Tents. First he treateth of the Passover, & God ordaineth that it should be diligently observed: for it was a memorial of great importance, whereby the people were put in mind, how they