A17698:2341
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.
And hereby we be yet better informed of the thing that I have touched already: which is that the profit which redoundeth to us by the death & passion §30of our Lord Jesus Christ, is much better known & beautifullier seen of us, by laying it to the ancient figure, & by considering how the things that were set forth darkly at that time, are now fulfilled to the sight of the eye. And like as it behoveth us to communicate with our Lord Jesus Christ; so let us mark also that God giveth us a help even at this day in the Sacrament of the Lords supper, because of our rudeness & infirmity. True it is (as I have touched already) that our communicating §40with our Lord Jesus Christ must not be only a thrice or four times a year, but continually all our life long. Yet notwithstanding we have need to be quickened up, because we come not to it with such strength as were requisite. Therefore like as the fathers of old time had the Paschal Lamb: so hath the son of God left us his supper to be a help to us to guide us unto him. Will we then be partakers of the supper of our Lord Jesus Christ? Let us understand that according as I have §50avouched before, we must rid our selves of all malice & guile, & forsake the world. True it is that the Hypocrites do thrust themselves in among the faithful, & come to defile the table of the son of God: but what carry they thence but utter cursedness? Therefore let us keep our selves from being guilty of such a treachery, & consider that if it behoved a man to be circumcised in old time ere he might eat of the Pascal Lamb:1 it behooveth us also at this day to be separated to the service §60of our God, & to be first made holy. And we know that we ought to be circumcised even at this day; howbeit not by mans hand, but by inward reformation of mind, accordingly as S. Paul saith thereof in the second Chapter to the Colossians,2 that whatsoever is of our flesh must be cut off: for there is nothing in it but sin & corruption. Now then, that we may come to the holy supper of our Lord Jesus Christ, & have there the warrant which he giveth us that we be members of his body: let us look that we circumcise our hearts. For the figure is abolished: but yet have we the accomplishment of all things in our Lord Jesus Christ.