A17698:3785
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 so let us remember two things, to wit,§20 when we have had experience of the power of God by his doings, or read the threatenings that he hath made against the transgressors of his law, and do behold the practise and execution thereof: let us be amazed thereat and say, How now? What a thing is it to provoke the Lord? For if he spare us on the one side, he can well assail us on the other; and when we be delivered from one hundred of afflictions, he hath three hundred others ready for us: and §30when we have escaped all those, yet have we gotten nothing. Let us therefore think upon these things. Now let us look what a sort of threatenings there are in the holy Scripture, how many sorts of deaths there be that God hath denounced against the despisers of his majesty, and against all them that despise and set light by his word: it would weary us to recite them. And in reading the histories, we see the examples that God hath given us §40of his wrath: and that not in one sort; we should needs be at our wits end if we should think but upon the tenth part of them. And if we should set our minds to mark and to note them all: what a thing were it? The first thing therefore which we have to do, is to be diligent to call to remembrance all the threatenings whereby God would tame our wicked affections, and hold us enbridled: and therewithal to compare the things that §50are set down unto us, how that God hath not threatened in vain, but hath accomplished whatsoever he hath said. Let us think on that. And moreover let us understand, that besides the means which are contained in the holy scripture, God hath yet a great many of other means to punish men; and we see how he doeth daily bring up new. If we had eyes, or rather would open them, we might well see that God doeth daily send new kinds of his §60wrath: and that is to the end which I have touched heretofore, namely to make his plagues wonderful, that men may be enforced to think upon them because they see that God worketh not after the ordinary course of nature: but after a sort that hath not bin erst known. When every of us hath well studied all the lessons that be declared unto us in the holy Scripture; and made our commodity of the examples & punishments that be there mentioned;