A17698:2541
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 with the blood that was shed to dedicate us to God & to wash us from all uncleanness. And so now we go into the sanctuary of heaven to present ourselves before the face of God.
but with the bloud that was shedde to dedicate vs to God & to wash vs from all vncleanes. And so now we go into the sanctuary of heauen to present ourselues before the face of God.
Now then let us apply this doctrine to ourselves where it is said that God is our heritage. True it is that such as have goods & possessions in this world may use them, howbeit with the condition which S. Paul setteth down in the seventh Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians:1 namely that he which hath possessions be as he that hath none, that he have the one foot ever lifted up, and that he stick not fast in the mire as tied to the things that are here beneath; but that we remember ourselves to be but strangers in this world, and therefore look ever upward to the resting place of heaven. After that manner we may well possess whatsoever things are in this world: but yet must we even go further, and not be stayed or tied here. For why? Seeing our Lord hath advanced us to such dignity, as to have us to be priests: let us go to his Altar. For we be linked to our Lord Jesus Christ,2 that he might dedicate us to GOD his father. Sith it is so, let us do as is said in the sixteenth Psalm. For although it was said alonely of the Levites, that GOD was their portion: yet doth David boast that he had a fair portion, because God was his. Behold (sayeth he) I have a fair lot, and henceforth I have no cause to complain, as though I wanted any thing: for my God hath given himself to me, he is my portion, & I possess him. David came not of the tribe of Levy; and how falleth it out then, that he boasteth himself to have as much as the priests? He knew well that Gods reserving of that tribe for a time was after such a sort, that yet nevertheless he would have the whole people partakers of the same blessing, accordingly also as it is said in Exodus,