A17698:288
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 he saith that the people being so discomfited, fell to weeping, but God heard not their cry, and so they tarried in Cades Barne according to the time that they abode there. Some supply it here with these words, according to the time that you abode in other places, and they say that they abode there nineteen years. But that cannot be proved by the holy scripture, & the makers of that gloss were the Jews, who have turned all the holy scripture topsyturvy, with their dreams and dotages. The meaning of Moses is far otherwise. For his intent is to put the people in mind of their long abiding at Cades Barne, because God held them there as it were at a bay: and to make them call to remembrance and consider the better that his pulling down of their pride after that manner, and his causing of them to feel that they ought not to range abroad at random when God shutteth the gate against them by forbidding them, was a just punishment from heaven. Moses then intendeth here to stablish the people the better in the knowledge which they ought to have had long ago concerning Gods justice, to the end that the same may humble them, & touch them the better with repentance. That is the plain meaning of the text.
Finally he sayth that the people being so discomfited, fell to weeping, but God heard not their cry, and so they taryed in Cades Barne according to the time that they abode there. Some supply it here wt these wordes, according to the time that you abode in other places, and they say that they abode there nyneteene yeeres. But that cannot be prooued by the holy scripture, & the makers of that glose were the Iewes, who haue turned all the holy scripture topsiteruie, with their dreames and dotages. The meaning of Moses is farre otherwise. For his intent is to put the people in minde of their long abiding at Cades Barne, because God helde them there as it were at a baye: and to make them cal to remembrance and consider the better that his pulling down of their pride after that manner, and his causing of them to feele that they ought not to raunge abroad at randon when God shutteth the gate against thē by forbidding them, was a iust punishment frō heaven. Moses then intendeth here to stablish the people the better in ye knowledge which they ought to haue had long agoe concerning Gods iustice, to the ende that the same may humble them, & touche them the better with repentance. That is the playne meaning of the text.