A17698:26
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.
The Deacons and disposers of the goods that are given in alms to the poor strangers that are come hither into the city of Geneva for Gods words sake: to all faithful and true Christians, health and peace from our Lord Jesus.
The Deacons and disposers of the goods that are giuen in almes to the poore strangers that are come hither into the citie of Geneua for Gods words sake: to all faithfull and true Christians, helth and peace from our Lord Iesus.
Forasmuch as our good & faithful shepherds the ministers of this church, peradventure fearing to be overlong or tedious to their readers, do in the end of their preface made to these sermons, but (as it were glancing lie) touch one point, which notwithstanding is of great importance for the poor strangers that are come into this town: to our seeming it would be thought neither amiss nor strange, if we for our duties sake, declared the thing somewhat more at large, which they spake in one word, concerning the printing of the sermons of our late good father M. John Calvin. Now then, for the better understanding of the whole, you must consider that from the year of our Lord 1549 forth on, the late M. Dennis Ragueneawe being fled hither, gave himself to the gathering of the Sermons word for word, which M. John Calvin did ordinarily make: and that with such swiftness and cunning, through the use of certain notes & shapes, as few words escaped him even from the beginning. Which thing when they saw which had the charge of the poor strangers at that time: although they had not any great sum of money wherewith to relieve the present needs: yet failed they not to take such order, that the said writer was entertained after a sort with some part of the same money, to the intent he might have wherewith to maintain himself and his small family, while he gave himself wholly to the gathering of these sermons, & to the engrossing of them fair again afterward, because he should spare no time to any other business than that. He undertook the charge, with condition that he should copy out all the Sermons fair, into books of a certain scantling of size whereby they should be made, which he should deliver to one of the Deacons to be faithfully kept, as a peculiar benefit belonging to the poor strangers, at whose charges the said writer was entertained. And forasmuch as afterward the number of the faithful increased daily in the realm of France, and many that could not hear the lively voice of this good servant of God in the pulpit, were desirous at leastwise to see the things in writing, which he preached openly, and prayed to be made partakers of them: