A17698:3741
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.
That is the thing which we have to bear in mind. Howbeit that is not all: for we must always fear that which is to come. And sith we saw that God hath thus increased his punishments not upon one man only, but upon the whole world: let us bethink us to call our selves home again before he fall to striking of us with main blows to our confusion and utter undoing, without giving us any more respite to come to the acknowledgement of our sins. For it is the sorest point of Gods wrath, when sinners be taken after such a sort out of this world, that they cannot have remembrance of their sins, nor take breath to resort unto God, or to ask him forgiveness. Let us beware least Gods vengeance proceed so far. And forasmuch as we see that the adversities of these days be very great, let us acknowledge that we have provoked God very much, & that it is not for us to abuse his patience any longer. Thus ye see in effect what we have to bear away: specially when we see that sin doth overflow, so as all the world is infected with corruption. Although a man do good, yet nevertheless forasmuch as it is evermore mixed with sin, he shall be chastised, howbeit, not at the first dash: for as I have said afore, God doeth spare the wicked and tarry for them, and in the mean while punish the good that seek to walk a right: but yet in the end he always plagueth the despisers of his law & majesty. And as touching the good, he will make them to feel his grace to their joy, so that although he exercise them with many chastisements & adversities: yet notwithstanding, they shall not fail to know him to be their God & father still, & to rest upon him. As for the wicked they be not disposed to taste or to feel the love & goodness of God: but are rather wood against him. But when iniquity is become as a main sea, & all men are corrupted: them the vengeance of God must also overflow, so as none may be free from it. We have seen already the threatening that was made here before,1 namely that the people should be led into captivity with their king. When this came to pass, were none carried away into captivity but the wicked, and such as strove against the Prophets, and such as despised the good doctrine, and such also as were headstrong against God like wild beasts? ⟨p. 991⟩Yes, there was Jeremiah himself who had called upon the people fifty years together and never ceased to cry: