A17698:3206
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.
1.2.3.4 When a man taketh a wife, &c. 5 When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go to war, neither shall he be charged with any business, but shall be free at home one year, and rejoice with his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take the nether nor the upper millstone for a pledge: for this gage is his living.
1.2.3.4 When a man taketh a wife, &c. 5 When a man taketh a newe wife, he shall not goe to warre, neither shall hee be charged with any busines, but shalbe free at home one yeere, and reioyce with his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take the neather nor the vpper milstone for a pledge: for this gage is his liuing.
I Have declared already at large, how men ought to live in agreement with their wives, and how the bond of marriage is such as cannot be broken. It remaineth now, that we come to the exception which our Lord Jesus Christ maketh; to wit,1 that for the cause of adultery, it shall be lawful for a man to put away his wife. The reason is, for that the man on his part breaketh not the faith which he plighted, but the wife having played the harlot doth as much as in her is, ⟨p. 840⟩undo the marriage altogether, and so defileth it▪ as there remaineth no longer any holiness in it. For on what other condition is the husband joined unto the wife, but that they should live chastely one with another? But the party which committeth adultery, breaketh this condition, and therefore the bond of marriage is then untied. So then if a man knowing his wife to be a whore, and having likewise proved her such a one, for sake her: he violateth not the institution §10of God, neither transgresseth he this law▪ They shall be two in one flesh:2