A17698:2594
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.
Finally here is mention made of such as ask counsel of the dead. For it is not our Lords will that we should have any thing to do with the dead. Therefore they that use such conjurations, go about to pervert the whole order of nature. For do men what they can, yet can they not bring the living and the dead together: but the devil steps in betwixt them and ⟨p. 671⟩pretendeth the persons of the dead, so as to outward seeming, the dead man himself appeareth (as was not long since rehearsed) whereas in very deed it is the devil that worketh such illusions. And therefore let us mark well, that seeing our Lord hath forbidden us to have to do with the dead, we cannot be deceived so long as we keep within our bounds, and attempt not any thing which we see not to be comprised within the order which he hath set. And thereby we see §10also, that all the things that ever have bin said of the coming up again of dead mens ghosts, have bin but sleights of satan: & when men have bin beguiled by than, it was all one as if they had wilfully yielded themselves slaves to satan. And yet was it held for great devotion in Popery. The cause why they made pilgrimages, and Masses to be sung, yea and their feast of all souls to be kept once a year, was by reason of a Revelation or dream of some devout Monk that had an idle §20head. He heard the crying of dead men's souls: and thereupon the Papists concluded, that a solemn feast was to be kept for the dead, & such and such things were to be done for them. To be short, in that men have invented service for the dead in the Popedom, that was nothing else but mere witchery, even such as God disliketh in this text and utterly abhorreth. And all they that have their devotion after that fashion to pray for the dead, are witches and sorcerers: for they believe §30in Satan's enchantments in despite of God.
Finally here is mention made of such as aske counsell of the deade. For it is not our Lords will that wee shoulde haue anie thing to doe with the deade. Therefore they that vse such coniurations, goe about to peruert the whole order of nature. For doe men what they can, yet can they not bring the liuing and the deade together: but the deuill steps in betwixt them and ⟨p. 671⟩