A17698:3398
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.
For there was danger least the people would stand too much on the corruptible elements. For this cause God saith not, I will dwell in this temple, as the Jews sometimes imagined that he did: and therefore it was requisite that they should be upbraided with that imagination by the Prophet, saying:§10 What house will ye build me?1 And in another place it is said, that the everliving God dwelleth not in any temple made with mans hand. But he saith, I will put my name there: that is to say, I will give you a certain sign and mark, that I am near unto you, if you worship me after a spiritual manner, and entangle not your selves in your superstitions, nor transform me at your own pleasure, as men will needs be always forging of idols: but know you that I §20come near unto you, to the intent that you might come the more familiarly unto me: and for the leading of you thereunto, you shall have my word preached and sacrifices offered among you. And he sayeth further, before the Lord thy God, or In the presence of the Lord thy God. For why? The ceremonies must profit us, or otherwise they shall be no better unto us than children's toys. If in baptism we had nothing but the water, nor knew what the use §30and virtue thereof is; it were but a contemptible thing. But forasmuch as we know that the water is a certain warrant that we are washed with the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that it lively representeth unto us the spirit of God, by the which we are regenerated and borne a new: we see that baptism is a certain warrant unto us, that we are clothed with the righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that by this means we are reconciled §40unto GOD as being cleansed and washed with his blood, so as we be made new creatures by his holy spirit. All this we see there. In the supper of the Lord, when we hear Jesus Christ say unto us,2 This is my body which is delivered for you, we know that it is not for nought that a morsel of bread is given unto us: we know it is not for the nourishment of our bodies, but to lead us to the food of our souls. Ye see (I say) in what sort we §50