A17698:318
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.
Herewithall also we be taught, how men §60should behave themselves in their wars (provided always that the war be rightful and holy, and such as God alloweth of:) that is to wit, in such sort as no man be vexed, and that there be no pillage, no saccage, nor no extortion committed. For it is said, ye shall buy the bread that ye eat, yea and ye shall pay ready money for the water that ye drink. If God command the people of Israel to buy water to drink: how much rather should they that make war, pay for wine and victuals, & such other things as cost ready money, to those that are not their enemies? For the thing that is said here, is spoken of the Edomites. But how is this observed nowadays, I pray? In deed there are Edicts and proclamations enow made: but the world sees how they be kept.
Herewithall also wee be taught, how men §60should behaue themselues in their warres (prouided alwayes that the warre be rightfull and holy, and such as God alloweth of:) that is to witte, in such sort as no man be vexed, and that there be no pillage, no saccage, nor no extortion committed. For it is sayd, yee shall buy the bread that ye eate, yea and ye shall pay ready mony for the water that yee drinke. If God commaund the people of Israell to buy water to drinke: howe much rather should they that make warre, pay for wine and victuals, & such other things as cost ready mony, to those that are not their enemies? For the thing that is sayd here, is spoken of the Edomites. But how is this obserued nowadayes, I pray? In deede there are Edictes and proclamations inow made: but the world sees how they be kept.
Yea and who be most troubled with the wars, but such as bear the burden of it? And that is even the country. When a king or a prince is about to make war, it seemeth to be for the common weal: & so are men made to believe. But in the mean while, when the poor subjects have payed a sort of tallages, taxes, and imposts for the maintenance thereof: yet must they be still bitten to the bone, so as the enemies shall not be more vexed, than they under whose name and title the war is made. They can well enough make markets for men to sell their wares in, and bear them in hand they shall have ready money. But what? the thing that is worth three shillings, shall be esteemed at one. And most commonly they take up victuals and pay for them as they list. And so we in effect, that all the wars which are made nowadays, are but robberies: and that the cruelty and unnaturalness is so excessive, as tendeth to utter confusion: so as it should seem that men are bent to banish all equity, and that war cannot be made without the forgetting of all uprightness, that there may be no more law, but that men may become wood beasts. Lo to what point the world is come.