A17698:2474
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.
let us follow the rule which our lord showeth us here, namely that there be Justice in every City & in every other place, and that such as bear the sword do watch so as no man oppress another, no man work any outrage or injury, nor no man presume further than is lawful. Mark that for one point.
let vs follow ye rule which our lord sheweth vs here, namely yt there be Iustice in euery Citie & in euery other place, and yt such as beare ye sword do watch so as no man oppresse another, no man work any outrage or iniurie, nor no man presume further than is lawfull. Marke that for one point.
Now let us come to that which is set down here concerning Appeals. If there rise any difficult & doubtful case, between cause and cause, wound and wound, or blood and blood. As if he should say, if there be any cause either criminal or civil whereof there riseth doubt, and men cannot decide it by giving definitive sentence on it: let them resort to the high court. We see then that Appeals are ordained as well for matters of life & death, as for matters of trespass. And now let us see whither God would have men to appeal. To Jerusalem. True it is that he doth not as yet name the place, because it was not appointed out at that time. But he saith, Thou shalt go up. And Moseses speaking after that manner, was after a sort in way of prophecy, because the situation of Jerusalem was higher than all the rest of Jury. But until the Ark was set there, it behooved them to resort to the place where that was. Again, here is no speaking of the king. For the time was not yet come that God would set up a kingdom among that people: it was to be stablished in the person of David. Yet notwithstanding there were always Judges, accordingly as we see how Joshua succeeded Moses, and consequently the rest of the Judges unto Samuel, at which time the people would needs change their state. Therefore unto Samuel's time, there was this order among them, that God raised up certain Judges in Israel, which represented the state of a king until the kingdom was stablished. That is the thing which Moses meant in this sentence, when he said, that men should resort to the Judge which should be at that time in Israel.