A17698:336
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.
Yea and let us mark also that the two nations which are spoken of here, showed themselves too too unkind, in yielding far other reward to the children of Israel than was to be looked for. We see that the children of Israel passed by them [quietly,] paying ready §50money for all things, yea even for the water that they drank. The Moabites therefore and the Ammonites not only had no cause to complain, seeing they were not grieved nor troubled by the children of Israel, nor received any harm or loss by them: but also ought to have considered thus, Behold, Gods will is to stablish the brotherhood that is betwixt them and us, and that ought we to print well in our minds. In so much that although they had §60had neither stories nor Chronicles: yet ought that to have been a thing of renown among them, and the report of it ought to have been common from father to son, to the end they might have applied and endeavoured themselves to maintain one another. Though there had been none other alliance nor promise: yet ought that to have sufficed to maintain peace and agreement betwixt them. But contrariwise they became Scorpions to sting the children of Israel: and when they could not make war against them themselves,1 they linked in with their enemies, and procured them many quarrels.2 And whensoever any adversity befell them, they plaid the barking curs and made hew and cry after them, as we see is spoken of them by the Prophets and the Psalms:3 For it is said, Lord remember the children of Edom, which were the nearest of kin unto them: for they came of Esau and were circumcised as well as the children of Israel, they bore the badge of Gods covenant, as household folks of his Church: and yet for all that, in the day of Jerusalem they cried out, upon them upon them, root them out so as one stone may not abide upon another. Thus see ye so great a cruelty, that even the enemies would have been more courteous, than these which had cause to have been so, and ought to have been as brothers. As much is to be said of Moab. For when the poor Jews were put to any afterdeele and fled unto Moab, in hope to have some refuge there: they were betrayed by these to whom they had conveyed themselves. And therefore doth God complain of such cruelty saying: