A17698:3667
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.
But yet, because he would not be corrected, and that whereas GOD had given him the honour to bear in his life time the figure of Jesus Christ: yet notwithstanding forasmuch as he had abused the same and given over himself to all ungodliness: thou §20shalt be buried with the burial of an as•e (sayeth the Prophet.) We be hereby warned to have very gre•• regard of all the corrections that GOD •i•deth us: yea even of the very least: that we may be always stirred to fear. •or what is the cause, that we pass over so many chastisements of GOD, without profiting by them? Because we shut out eyes wilfully, and unless we be compelled by utter force and necessity, we are contented to bear ourselves in §30hand, that it is not GOD that ha•tiseth us: and (as we shall see hereafter) we fall to such blockishness, as to attribute all to fortune. Let us therefore be admonished to mark all the corrections which GOD sendeth us, both upon ourselves, and upon our neighbours, that we may receive warning by them. Jo seemeth to be but a small matter, not to be buried: yea but yet will God have it noted, and to be understood th• it is his hand, and that he showeth §40himself a•Iudge against such as have offended him. Seeing that GOD will have his Judgements known in •o small things? let us be advised to have more wit and discretion. As often as GOD giveth us (as ye would say) but a fillip, let us be moved to think on him and nor tarry until he draw his sword, or bend his bow to hit us with a mortal wound: but let us by all manner of means humble ourselves under his hand. Moreover we have §50here, a Testimony of the life everlasting. True it is that this point was not so plainly declared in the law, as it is to us in the Gospel, neither that we should rise again to the heavenly glory, nor that we should live with God after our death. But yet for all that, the old fathers did not lead the life of beasts, neither did God leave them in such ignorance, as to have their faith closed up in this present world and in this transitory life. For here we have a record, that when we have finished the course of