A17698:2500
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.
it is nothing in comparison of the spiritual kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, & therefore that we must highly exalt or praise this benefit that God vouchsafeth to govern us by the hand of his only son, yea and we must esteem it, not only more than all the liberty of the world, but also more than all the kingdoms and Empires of the world. But anon this point shall be touched new again.
it is nothing in comparison of the spirituall kingdom of our Lorde Iesus Christ, & therefore yt we must highly exalt or praise this benefite yt God vouchsafeth to gouerne vs by the hande of his onely son, yea and we must esteeme it, not onely more than all the libertie of the worlde, but also more than al the kingdomes and Empires of ye world. But anon this point shalbe touched new againe.
Furthermore let us mark, that God intending to set up a king, did tarry nevertheless till the people required one. And that was to put them in a desire, that they might not afterward rebel against the king that was to be set up. For the unthankfulness and malice of the people bewrayed it self, in that they could not find in their hearts to hold them to the state which God had stablished already. And what a thing had it been, if he had set up a Monarchy among them at the first day? For it is a far more tolerable thing for us to have governors that go by choice and election, who in executing their office shall know themselves to be subject to the Law: than to have a Prince whose word must stand for reason, and whose child must inherit, though he be never so very a babe, and consequently obeyed; though he be the willfullest fool or the cruellest person in the world. Therefore it is a far more tolerable state to have Judges and Governors. Now if the people of Israel could not away with this state, but would needs through a wicked desire seek to have a king: what would they have done if God had at the first day said unto them, I set this or that house to reign over you, & it behoveth you to obey the king? What murmuring would there have been? ⟨p. 646⟩