A17698:38
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.
Yea and what authority deserved the Law, which was so confirmed with such store of miracles? For when God had chosen Moses to be his prophet: he not only commanded him to speak, but also took him up into the mountain, and separated him from the company of men, to the end that when he should come to set forth his Law, the people should accept him as an Angel, and not as a mortal creature. He was there forty days without ⟨p. 2⟩eating or drinking, to show that he was exempted from the common sort of men, and that God had taken him up as it were into his heavenly glory. And when he came down again, his face shone as bright as it had been another sun. Where as men attribute horns unto him, it is said that he had sun beams round about him, that is to say, he had such a brightness as he was fain to wear a veil before his face. And whereto served that, but to ratify and §10confirm the law which God had given and committed unto him, and to make it known that it was not a doctrine devised by a mortal man? Besides this, there was thundering and lightning and trumpets sounding [in the air,] so as it seemed that all the world should have gone to wrack: and there was not any place either high or low, which did not shake & tremble when God went about to utter his voice.
Yea and what authoritie deserued the Law, which was so confirmed with such store of miracles? For when God had chosen Moses to be his prophet: he not onely commaunded him to speake, but also tooke him vp into the mountaine, and separated him from the companie of men, to the ende that when he should come to set forth his Law, the people should accept him as an Angell, and not as a mortal creature. He was there fortie daies without ⟨p. 2⟩eating or drinking, to shewe that he was exempted from the common sort of men, and that God had taken him vp as it were into his heauenly glorie. And when he came downe againe, his face shone as bright as it had beene another sunne. Where as men attribute hornes vnto him, it is saide that he had sunne beames rounde about him, that is to say, he had such a brightnesse as he was faine to weare a veyle before his face. And whereto serued that, but to ratifie and §10confirme the lawe which God had giuen and committed vnto him, and to make it knowen that it was not a doctrine deuised by a mortall man? Besides this, there was thundering and lightning and trumpets sounding [in the aire,] so as it seemed that all the worlde shoulde haue gone to wracke: and there was not any place either high or lowe, which did not shake & tremble when God went about to vtter his voice.