A17698:3556
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.
And hereunto answereth that which is said in the fifteenth Psalm:1 namely, that if we will be Gods household folk, and dwell in his Church, we must beware of taking rewards to hurt the guiltless. If God banish all such out of his kingdom, ⟨p. 937⟩and from the company of the faithful, as have gone about to misbehave themselves, after that fashion, by setting themselves to sale and hire through their covetousness: what remaineth for them but utter cursedness? For when God once disclaimeth us, & acknowledgeth us no longer for any of his: needs must we be accursed. Wherein lieth all our happiness? It is said in the psalm,2 Right happy be those folk whose God is the everlasting. The way §10then for us to be happy, is to be taken of God into his flock: And if he cast us out; needs must all mischief light upon our heads. Sith it is so, let us learn so much the more to restrain our selves, and let every of us be contented with that which he hath, and let us not seek to advance our selves by unlawful means; least the profit which we have griped to our selves, become as Cudgels or rather as stabs with a dagger to the poor, whom §20we shall have wounded by raking so to our selves by hook or by crook. Therefore let us learn to have both our hearts and our hands clean from all annoyance and misdealing, if we will be blessed of God, and taken to be of the number of the faithful. Thus ye see in effect what this sentence importeth.
And hereunto answereth that which is sayde in the fifteenth Psalme:1 namely, that if wee will be Gods houshold folk, and dwel in his Church, wee must beware of taking rewardes to hurt the guiltlesse. If God banish all such out of his kingdome, ⟨p. 937⟩and from the company of the faithfull, as haue gone about to misbehaue themselues, after that fashion, by setting themselues to sale and hire through their couetousnesse: what remaineth for them but vtter cursednesse? For when God once disclaymeth vs, & acknowledgeth vs no longer for any of his: needes must we be accursed. Wherein lyeth all our happinesse? It is sayde in the psalme,