A17698:2365
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 therefore let us mark, that besides the admonishment which the Jews had to do homage to God for their harvest and for their bodily sustenance which he gave them: they had also a resemblance of the things which were fulfilled at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, at which time GOD made another manner of Whitsuntide than had been in the time of the figures. For at that time he uttered the grace of the holy Ghost. Yet for all this, it is not meant that §40we should keep a feast of Pentecost: it is clean contrary. Seeing that the things which were figured under the law, were fulfilled in our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the figures themselves are ceased: if we bring them back again, we do wrong to him which hath brought the full accomplishment of all things. If the shadows which were under the law,1 do come up again; Jesus Christ is to no purpose. So then let us mark that the holy Ghost was not sent unto us, to the §50end that these figures should continue still: but to show that we differ from the people of old time. True it is (as I said afore) that there is no ill in it for the Christians to have a certain day wherein this history should be declared unto them: For we must not tie our selves to so strait a preciseness, that it should not be lawful for us to use that help for our infirmity. But to make a service of God thereof, and to take example at the Jews, as though it behoved us to fashion §60our selves like unto them, or as though the feast of Whitsuntide ought to be observed at this day, by reason of the sending of the holy Ghost: that were too gross a fondness. Let us understand then, first that the Jews had but a figure & shadow of the trueth: and on our own part we may know in Jesus Christ, that God hath not figured any thing in vain,2 but that all the ceremonies of the Law tended to very good purpose because the effect of them is showed us in him. Therefore let us hold us contended therewith, and now let us learn to rejoice in the presence of our God, and to make other folks partakers of our mirth.
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