A17698:2331
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.
IT was declared yesterday, how that by keeping the feast of the passover, the Jews were put in mind of the deliverance of their forefathers made by God. And I told you how it was to double end. For GODS will was to put his people in remembrance of the favour which he had showed to them already: and again,§60 he meant to lead them to the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ. It was then but a temporal deliverance, which God had made of them out of the land of Egypt: but when he sent his only son, then delivered he his people out of a far worse bondage than that which we have spoken of. And therefore let us mark that the Paschal Lamb was a figure of our Lord Jesus Christ: which thing S. Paul witnesseth in express words, saying: Christ our Passover is offered up.1 Also we know the sentence that is alleged out of the twelfth of Exodus by S. John, where it is said;2 Ye shall not break a bone of him. For there he declareth how they came to our Lord Jesus Christ to have broken his bones after the accustomed manner, and found him already dead. And that came to pass by the wonderful providence of God, whose will it was that the thing which had been figured in the Paschal Lamb, should be laid open to mens eyes in Jesus Christ. And so Saint John applieth this sentence to ⟨p. 603⟩the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, in saying, it is written, Ye shall not break a bone of him. Yet, but God speaketh but only of the Paschal Lamb which was offered in those days. Yet notwithstanding his intent was to show, that there was an agreement between Christ & the Passover, and that in that visible sacrament he meant to foreshow the redemption that was not yet seen, and that all this was fully accomplished in our Lord Jesus Christ. True it is that the Jews §10have not profited by this admonition: for they were the more inhardened by it. But let us on our side learn to refer the things that were done by our Lord Jesus Christ, to the things that were for figured in the law, & we shall profit greatly by that mean. For it is not enough for us to know the story of the death and Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ; but the chief point is to resort to the use and fruit of it. And that is much the better attained unto, by considering