A17698:2415
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.
The Seventeenth Chapter.
The Seuenteenth Chapter.
Thou shalt not offer to the Lord thy God, either Ox or Sheep that hath any blemish therein: I say thou shalt not offer any evil-favoured thing: for that is abomination to the Lord thy God.
THou shalt not offer to the Lorde thy God, either Ox or Sheepe that hath any blemish therin: I say thou shalt not offer any euilfauoured thing: for that is abhomination to the Lorde thy God.
Hitherto Moses hath commended equity & uprightness unto us, saying that those which are appointed to be Judges, ought to maintain every mans right without swerving. And thereupon he said, that as many as intend to §40continue in such soundness, must beware in any wise of taking rewards: for if they take any, by and by they be corrupted, by & by they be blinded. And it is not to be replied here, that a man may well receive a present, & yet have no meaning to favour any wicked case. For the holy ghost hath given sentence, that the man which is so given to taking of presents, shall be blinded though he were the sharpest sighted man in the world. Nay, he hath a towel before his eyes already,§50 and besides that, whereas he was well & holily disposed before, now he is quite perverted. We see then how it is a deadly poison, for a Judge to receive any presents in any wise.