A17698:2512
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.
But he sayeth expressly, That the king which shall have been chosen, must cause the book of the law to be copied out in the presence of the high priest and of the Levites. Now let us see why God hath made this so strait ordinance, that there should §20be a book of authority for the kings use. Is it meant that a man should be ignorant and utterly unacquainted with the doctrine of God, until he came to the crown? No. For Gods will is that his law should be known both of great and small, as we shall see by his protestation hereafter.1 The secrete things belong to your God himself: but yet it hath pleased him to set his word here before you; & ye must not say any more that it is a hidden doctrine, either §30for your selves or for your children. We see then how it was Gods will that his law should be common both to great and small. And should he then that was brought up in the house of the crown, be a beast? No. Ought he not to be instructed in the Law? And if he ought, was it not requisite that he should have a book of it? Yes for sooth. And what is the cause why God would he should have a copy of the book▪ at such time as he were put in possession §40of the kingdom? It was to the end he should perceive himself to be double bound, & understand that if private persons be bound to profit in Gods school, & to give good heed to the doctrine that is preached or written; it is much more reason that the person which hath the charge of the whole body, which is set up in the name of God, and hath God come near unto him, should be diligent to profit in the same school. Therefore let us mark how it behooved §50a book to be appointed out specially for the king, and the same to be written after a solemn fashion, and the Priests and Levites to be witnesses thereof, and the same to be delivered unto him as by the hand of God. For it was all one as if God had said unto him; Go to, I have given my law to all my people, & I will have the remembrance thereof to be renewed yearly.2 For the book was brought forth, & the blood of the sacrifice was sprinkled first upon