A17698:2336
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 remaineth that we eat of this Sacrifice, that is to say, that we become partakers thereof. As if he had said, there are two things in the paschal Lamb: the one was the sprinkling of the Lambs blood, and the other was the eating of his flesh roasted. Now in deed it is the son of God that hath offered this sacrifice,1 and that office belongeth to him alone. The sprinkling of his blood is made in our ⟨p. 604⟩hearts by the holy Ghost: for that cannot be attributed to the cunning of men. We must now become partakers of this Sacrifice: not by eating Jesus christ after a fleshly manner; but S. Paul had an eye to this partaking that is given us by the Gospel.2 For we be members of his body, and he knitteth us so unto him,3 that look whatsoever he hath, he communicateth the same unto us; so as we live in him & he also in us. And for as much as there is no severalty between the son of God & the faithful:§10 therefore is he our meat. For we be no less fed with his power & his very substance as in respect of our souls, than our bodies are fed and nourished with bread. Again, to the intent we should understand that we have not our sustenance by halves in Jesus Christ: he addeth wine also, to show that he is our drink as well as our meat. That is the thing which S. Paul meant to betoken, in saying that we must now eat of this Easter lamb: that is to wit, that as now we should so communicate §20with the son of God, as we might be knit unto him by the secret and marvellous working of his holy spirit, and he become our food and nourishment, & we be sustained by the same, because we must else needs decay through our own feebleness. And this eating is not for once a year; but continually during all the time of our life.
Nowe remayneth that wee eate of this Sacrifice, that is to say, that wee become partakers thereof. As if hee had sayde, there are two thinges in the pascall Lambe: the one was the sprinkling of the Lambes bloud, and the other was the eating of his fleshe roasted. Now in deede it is the sonne of God that hath offred this sacrifice,