A17698:2310
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.
Presently we have to speak of the passover.§50 But before I go any further, we must mark also that God respected not only what he had done already; but also meant therewithal there should be a figure of things to come, whereof we have now the trueth & substance, since the time that our lord Jesus Christ hath bin discovered to the world. That is the cause why S. Paul telleth the Colossians, that these things were but shadows,1 the body whereof is in Christ Jesus. True it is that he speaketh §60not there expressly of Easter day by name: but yet under the name of Sabbath, he comprehendeth all the feasts, & likewise all the Ceremonies that depended upon them. To be short, God had a double respect in ordaining the day of the Passover. The one was to do the people of Israel to understand, that they came not into possession of the Land of Canaan by their own power: but that they had bin led in thither by the hand of God. And because they had bin delivered by miracle out of the land of Egypt; Gods will was that the same should be declared. Again, forasmuch as the same deliverance was a figure of the deliverance that was to be hoped for by our Lord Jesus Christ: this feast of Passover extended yet further, that is to wit, that when the people ate of the paschal Lamb (as they called it) they should think thus with themselves: This is a shadow & figure of the Sacrifice which shall be once offered up, whereby the world shall be reconciled & set free. And although the thing were not yet apparent to the eye. Yet behoveth it the faithful to inure themselves to the hope of the redeemer whom God had promised them. And in that respect saith S. Paul in the first to the Corinthians,2 that Jesus Christ is our Passover or Paschal Lamb, and that he is sacrificed for us, and that we must now eat of that sacrifice: howbeit not with the leaven of malice and deceitfulness, but with righteousness and soundness. That is the one point which we have to remember.
Presently we haue to speake of the passeouer.§50 But before I go any further, we must marke also that God respected not only what he had done already; but also ment therewithall there should be a figure of thinges to come, whereof we haue now the trueth & substance, since the time yt our lord Iesus Christ hath bin discouered to ye world. That is the cause why S. Paul telleth ye Colossians, yt these thinges were but shadowes,