A17698:332
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.
Also let us call to mind what was rehearsed here, concerning kindred. In deed it was treated of at length yesterday: howbeit forasmuch as Moses speaketh of it again, in making mention of the children of Moab and of their brethren the Ammonites: and seeing that God setteth before his peoples eyes the kindred which they had with these nations: Let us mark that we must live peaceably and brotherly one with another, because God hath knit us together. In deed we §20shall not all be kinsfolk in respect of the flesh: but yet is there such a [general] union among mankind, as we ought not at any time to be such strangers one to another, that there should not be some communicating together: & specially forasmuch as we be all created after one likeness, & we see as it were our own flesh & bones in other folks persons, in respect whereof it behoveth us to practise this saying of the Prophet Isaiah,1 that we must not hate our own flesh. But besides this,§30 there is an image of God which shineth in all men: and is it not reason that we should do it so much honour, as to reverence it wheresoever it showeth it self? Again seeing God hath called us to the knowing of him, and will have us to call upon him as our father, and hath vouchsafed that we should be marked with Baptism, and be grafted into the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that he openeth us his kingdom, to take us in thither as into our common §40inheritance: must it not needs be that we be worse than beasts, if yet for all this, we will not be kind hearted one to another, to be as brethren, and to abstain from all annoyance and extortion? And herewithall let us mark also, that the nearer God bringeth men together, and maketh any neighbourhood between them▪ the more ready ought they to be to do service one to another: and that if they do it not, it is as a defying of God and nature.
Also let vs call to minde what was rehearsed here, concerning kinred. In deede it was treated of at length yesterday: howbeit forasmuch as Moses speaketh of it againe, in making mention of the children of Moab and of their brethren the Ammonites: and seeing that God setteth before his peoples eyes the kinred which they had with these nations: Let vs marke yt wee must liue peaceably and brotherly one with another, bicause God hath knit vs together. In deede wee