A17698:3414
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.
to wit, that men have need to be warned, that whatsoever they have, they receive it from the freebestowed goodness of God, and that he saved them, yea even when they were in a most miserable case.
to wit, that men haue neede to be warned, that whatsoeuer they haue, they receiue it from the freebestowed goodnesse of God, and that he saued them, yea euen when they were in a most miserable case.
Now as touching the second point, we see, how Moses hath here declared their coming out of Egypt, in such manner, as the Jews must ⟨p. 899⟩needs be awakened to consider how mightily God had wrought for them. For he saith not simply that God delivered them out of the land of Egypt, but having made a long rehearsal how the Egyptians had set their feet on the throat of this poor people, how they had afflicted and molested them, how they had exercised grievous and cruel tyranny upon them, it is said: We called on the GOD of our fathers, and he heard our voice. he saw our §10affliction and misery and he delivered us out of it. And how? By strong hand and stretched out arm. Neither yet is this all, with terribleness, with signs, with wonders: Lo in what sort our God succoured us. We see then how Moses is not content to say in one simple word, that GOD was the Redeemer of that people; but he hath largely showed, that the Jews cannot attribute their deliverance, neither to fortune, nor to their own policy, nor to any other means §20in the whole world: but they were forced to know the wonderful power of God, who so stretched forth his arm, as if he had come after a visible manner to redeem his people. Now then if we will yield unto GOD the honour which he deserveth, let us learn to consider of his power, not as it were at a glance or slightly: but as diligent markers of the things which he showeth us, to the intent we may be the more throughly certified, that when it pleased