A17698:3724
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 God will be then called upon, according as we are bound to make our daily suit unto him, saying, Give us our daily bread O Lord,1 that day by day he may feed ⟨p. 986⟩us. For albeit we have never so much to day, yet to morrow we may starve. For when it pleaseth God, he is able not only to destroy the corn and wine in the fields; but also he can make them to be worth nothing, even when we have them in our garners and Cellars. Nay, we hear the threatenings that he maketh, saying, You shall carry corn to the mill by measure, and the bread to the oven by weight, and yet for all that, you shall be still empty and hungry,2 when you have §10eaten never so much, there shall be no virtue at all in the meat, neither shall you be sufficed therewith. Seeing our Lord telleth us that he hath so many ways to famish us, let us not be hard hearted: but let it rather waken us, that we may altogether depend upon him, and walk in his fear, and be his children, if we intend that he shall still continue to do the office of a father toward us. That is the effect of the things which we have to remember. Here again Moses repeateth §20these threatenings, whereof he had spoken afore, saying: That the Jews and their linage shall be carried away into captivity. Now certainly there can nothing more bitter happen unto men, than to see their children taken away by force, eaten, and devoured by the enemies, and cruelly dealt withal: they had rather to have buried them a hundred times. Now then let us mark in few words that God meant to declare in this text, that although he have been never §30so bountiful towards us, and filled us with his blessings, so as we be fenced in on all sides: yet he can very well bereave us of them all again, and that plague shall be much more grievous unto us, than if we had never known, what his goodness meaneth. Wherefore the largelier that God bestoweth his blessings upon us, yea even those blessings that concern this transitory life, let us look that we be always so much the more provoked to honour him and to serve him.§40