A17698:2576
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 by the way, let us also weigh this speech where it is said, Ye shall hearken unto him. For as God showeth himself freehearted; not minding to forsake his Church, but to provide the things which he knoweth to belong to the welfare thereof: so is it good reason that we on the other side should not despise the benefit that he offereth us, and imparteth unto us. Here of his own free goodness he bindeth himself to us in saying: I will raise you up a Prophet. And on the other part he ⟨p. 667⟩exacteth a covenant, in commanding us to receive that benefit as it deserveth, & to make our profit of it. Therefore see that you obey. Wherefore let us mark, that when God hath allured us to him so gently and after so fatherly manner, that he is ready to speak to us as it were mouth to mouth: he will not have us to give him deaf ear, or to run gadding away, and to despise or mock him. It is not for us to think that God will bear such unthankfulness and contempt of his word:§10 for the revenge thereof will be horrible as shall be declared in due place. But in the mean while let us go willingly to our Lord Jesus Christ, who is sent unto us in the name of God his father, & protesteth that he will reach us his hand to lead us to endless salvation. Therefore let us hear him, not only to say, it is true that he speaketh; but also to give our hearts unto him. For the hearing that he requireth, is that all wisdom be beaten down, so as men be not §20puffed up with vain self-weening, as if they would say, I will do what I list: but that we hearken to our master which is given us from heaven, and that all our affections be subdued to him, and that our lust be overcropped when they would carry us here and there; so as Jesus Christ may reign howsoever the world goeth, and that both great and small may know how that to them it is that God speaketh. For as touching the great o•es, it is said unto them in the second §30Psalm, Kiss the Son ye kings and Princes of the earth:1 do homage to the son of God whom he hath sent unto you. Now if our Lord will have all highness to stoop after that fashion under the sovereign dominion of our Lord Jesus Christ: (accordingly also as S. Paul saith, that the preaching of the Gospel serveth to pull down all loftiness that will needs be exalted: