A17698:2347
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 for that doing thereof let us mark, that it behoveth us to live soberly, for if we got to work proudly & presumptuously as a number do which think themselves so great clerks (as I have said) that no man can teach them any more than they know already: we shall be full enough, yea even till we burst: but it shall be but with wind, & we shall be void of all light of §10life. But if we can find in our hearts to be taught of God: we must be learners, that is to say, lowly-minded: and we must understand that we have need to proceed further. And truly the very use of the Lords supper ought to put us in mind, that our coming thither ought not to be without instruction. For (as I declared yesterday) a sacrament without teaching & instruction, is a dead thing, and a mocking of God, and a defiling of the thing it self. Therefore §20as oft as we come to the supper, let it be awakening of us, to make us inquire of the things that we know not sufficiently before though we have had some taste of them. And truly if it be not lawful to admit young children to the Lords supper, until they know what is meant by that Sacrament, and wherefore it was ordained: should such as have lived a forty and threescore years come to it like dogs or swine? And yet we see they do so: and woe be to them §30for it. So then let the visible sign which our lord hath ordained be a mean to spur us forward the more, that we may seek to profit more and more in the knowing of Jesus Christ, specially seeing we be no more troubled nowadays with resorting to a place which God hath appointed. For we have Jesus Christ who is Gods temple,1 and he is not shut up within any certain place, but filleth both heaven and earth, with his power. True it is that in the nature of §40man wherewith he clothed himself, he is gone up into heaven: and yet for all that, he ceaseth not to dwell here in us, So then we must go to Jerusalem, we need not to go on pilgrimage, but only to make our repair to the son of God, and we shall find in him the whole fullness and perfection of the Godhead.2
And for yt doing thereof let vs marke, yt it behoueth vs to liue soberly, for if we got to worke proudly & presumptuously as a nōber do which think thēselues so great clerks (as I haue said) yt no man cā teach thē any more than they know alreadie: wee shall be ful enough, yea euē till we burst: but it shalbe but with wind, & we shalbe voyde of all light of