A17698:2640
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 Thursday the v. of December. 1555. The Cxij Sermon which is the first upon the nineteenth Chapter
On Thursday the v. of December. 1555. The Cxij Sermon which is the first vppon the nineteenth Chapter
When the Lord thy God shall have rooted out the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, so as thou art owner of them and dwellest in their Cities and houses: 2 Then shalt thou set thee out three Cities in the middest of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess. 3 Thou shalt prepare a way to them, and divide the bounds of the land (which the Lord thy God will give thee to inherit) into three parts, that whosoever hath committed manslaughter may flee thither. 4 They shall serve for the manslayer to flee thither, that he may live: namely if he have stricken his neighbour ignorantly, and have not hated him aforetimes. 5 [As for example] if a man go with his neighbour to the wood to fell timber, and he casteth back his hand with the axe in hewing the wood, and the head flieth off of the helve, and hitteth his neighbour that he dieth: he shall flee to one of those Cities and live: 6 To the intent that the next of his kin follow not the manslayer, while his heart is chafed, and overtake him if the way be overlong, and put him to death though he be guiltless of the other mans death, forasmuch as he hated him not before. 7 Therefore command I thee to appoint out three Cities.
WHen the Lord thy God shal haue rooted out the nations, whose lande the Lorde thy God giueth thee, so as thou arte owner of them and dwellest in their Cities and houses: 2 Then shalt thou set thee out three Cities in the middest of the lande which the Lorde thy God wil giue thee to possesse. 3 Thou shalt prepare a way to them, and diuide the bounds of the land (which the Lorde thy God will giue thee to inherite) into three parts, that whosoeuer hath committed manslaughter may flee thither. 4 They shal serue for the mansleaer to flee thither, that he may liue: namely if he haue striken his neighbour ignorantly, and haue not hated him aforetimes. 5 [As for example] if a man goe with his neighbour to the wood to fel timber, and he casteth backe his hande with the axe in hewing the wood, and the head flieth off of the helue, and hitteth his neighbour that he dieth: he shall flee to one of those Cities and liue: 6 To the intent that the next of his kinne followe not the mansleaer, while his heart is chafed, and ouertake him if the way be ouerlong, and put him to death though he bee guiltlesse of the other mans death, forasmuch as he hated him not before. 7 Therefore commaund I thee to appoint out three Cities.