A17698:2323
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 is also said, that it was not to be eaten throughout the whole Country; but that it was to be done in the place which the Lord had chosen to put his name in. And truly this was not showed them at the first day, insomuch that they had been a long time in the land of Canaan, ear the Ark had any certain resting place, there was no such place assigned to it. But yet it behoved them always to be obedient to the ceremony of resorting to the place where the Ark §10was,1 until mount Zion was marked out. And then were all men bound to repair thither, even from the uttermost borders of the Country: all men were to come to Jerusalem, except they were letted by sickness or old age. And why? It was not to give a president for the Pilgrimages which the Papists invented afterward: For in so doing they showed themselves to differ nothing at all from the Jews. Again, it is not for them to excuse themselves by the example of the Jews: for the §20Jews had a commandment of God, but the Papists made their vagaries for their own pleasure: wherein they utterly renounced Jesus Christ & overthrew that which is said in the fourth of S. John,2 namely that the time was come that god would no more be worshipped in any place certain, but would have his name called upon every where throughout the whole world. Besides this, we must mark that there was a special reason why God would have the Jews to resort to Jerusalem to §30sacrifice the paschal Lamb there: namely to the end that no man should attempt to alter any thing in that order which he had set by the Law. And (as I have said) this ancient ceremony was a thing of great importance, as whereby the people were informed of their Redeemer, even that he had brought them out of the land of Egypt, & that he would send them yet another redeemer, by whom the whole world should be redeemed. Lo here a ceremony that imported a wonderful secret,§40 & therefore it was meet that it should be kept purely. For the doing whereof, god called all the Jews into one body, that having the Sanctuary & the temple there before their eyes, they might be the better put in mind that it was not lawful for them to add any thing at their own pleasure, but that it behoved them to follow the common doctrine, to understand that God represented himself there,