A17698:2580
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.
On Monday the ij. of December. 1555. The Cix. Sermon which is the third upon the eighteenth Chapter.
On Munday the ij. of December. 1555. The Cix. Sermon which is the third vpon the eighteenth Chapter.
10.11.12.13.14.15. There shall not any be found among you, &c.
10.11.12.13.14.15. There shall not anie bee found among you, &c.
WE have seen how our Lord, to make his word prevail among the Jews, hath willed them to put away all superstitions §60from among them. For in very deed the trueth of God cannot be coupled with Satan's lies & corruptions: we must be either altogether the ones or altogether the others. Also I have declared unto you, that this order of Preaching Gods word, must be observed to the worlds end. In doing whereof I have reserved hitherto the declaring of the several sorts of the superstitions that are set down here: First of all it is said That the Jews must not make their children to pass through the fire. And it may be taken two ways. For we know they were carried away with such rage, that they burnt their children in sacrifice, & that was a terrible thing. But ye may see how foolish the devotion of men is, when they estrange themselves from God. Needs must they be bereft of ⟨p. 668⟩all humane sense, and needs must the devil possess them & drive them into such fury as is horrible to all men. Yet notwithstanding, this mischief befell among the Jews, that they sacrificed their children to Moloch. But there was yet an other fashion of making their children to go through the fire, whereof Moses doeth rather speak in this place, according to the observing thereof among the heathen. They termed it a manner of purging or cleansing when