A17698:3699
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.
Now he addeth moreover, to the increase of the mischief, That the fruits of the earth and the labour of our hands, shall be eaten by a people which we have not known: and that we our selves shall be distracted by reason of the miseries which shall so light upon us. That is to say, we shall be as out of our wits, beholding the mischief before our eyes; and being amazed thereat, whereby we shall be enforced to perceive that the hand of God is against us. That is in effect the matter which he meant to say in this text. ⟨p. 979⟩Now I have told you that the misery is so much the more grievous to bear, when a people unknown cometh to ransack all. Truly if we be robbed by our own neighbours, and by them that should be at amity with us: the same is very hard to bear. But if there come a strange people, there is less mercy. For when men be so separated one from the other, and have no intercommoning at all: there is the less likelihood of any means of safety.§10 And we see how this repetition here is often found in the Prophets: insomuch as it is said sometimes,1 that the people which shall persecute us, shall be a barbarous people without language whereby to have any take with us: by reason whereof, when we shall ask them mercy, and cry alas, it shall seem unto them that we curse them; and that shall be an increase of their cruelty. So then let us mark, that his speaking thus of a strange people, is to make §20us to understand, that GOD will send us such chastisers as will have no pity nor compassion of us, until they have quite and clean rooted us out.
Nowe hee addeth moreouer, to the increase of the mischeefe, That the fruits of the earth and the labour of our handes, shalbee eaten by a people which wee haue not knowen: and that wee our selues shalbee distraughted by reason of the miseries which shall so light vppon vs. That is to say, wee shalbee as out of our wittes, beholding the mischiefe before our eyes; and beeing amazed thereat, whereby wee shalbee enforced to perceiue that the hande of God is against vs. That is in effect the matter which hee meant to say in this text. ⟨p. 979⟩