A17698:2320
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.
Now it was commanded further, that the §30paschal Lamb should be eaten with bitter herbs.1 And our Lord himself speaketh here expressly of the bread of sorrow: as if he had said, although ye eateth: paschal Lamb in rest, and when ye be come to the enjoying of the inheritance which I have promised you: yet must you have a memorial of the anguish wherein your forefathers were, and you must think that without my favour you should have had neither paschal Lamb nor bit of bread to eat at this day: for ye should have §40been utterly rooted out of the world. Consider it therefore, and that ye may be the better moved thereunto, take bitter herbs, that is to say, abstain from all daintiness in your eating of the paschal Lamb. For the Jews were not restrained from taking their repast after their eating of the paschal Lamb, as we see that our Lord Jesus Christ in eating of the Paschal Lamb with his disciples, insomuch as they did not only sit down at a table, but also lye down after the §50manner of old time, which was to eat their meals lying half a tone side. Certain it is that he kept the Law to the uttermost:2 for he submitted himself to it to set us free from it. Then must we note that our Lord ate the paschal Lamb after the same manner that was ordained by Moses, that is to wit, standing upon his feet, with his staff in his hand, and his shoes on his feet, and having his loins girded up like a wayfarer. And after this was done he took his accustomed §60repast, for this was a solemn sacrifice, and therefore we must not wonder that it was separated from the common meats: for it behoved all the folk of one house to eat thereof, so as if there were thirty or forty persons in a house, every man had his portion of it. And if the household were not great enough, two or three households were called together and they met in one place, that the sacrifice might be eaten up hastily. A Lamb was roasted in hast and eaten up with a morsel of a sweet cake: yea and they were forbidden to seeth it, to show that they could have no leisure to tarry till it were half boiled, but they were fain to devour it hastily, life folk that were to go their ways out of hand. But howsoever the case stood, it behoved them to eat it with bitter herbs.