A17698:3851
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 that they despised their God, and turned away from his word, and shut their eyes, even knowing the things as altogether apparent.
for that they despised their God, and turned away from his worde, and shut their eyes, euen knowing the thinges as altogether apparant.
But as it was touched yesterday, albeit that Moses do here speak to the Jews; yet doth it also concern us. So then we be condemned here before God, if we profit not our §40selves by all the benefits which we receive at his hand, as we may thereby be induced and provoked to honour and serve him, and to resort for refuge to his goodness, in such wise as we •ander not in our vain and frail hopes, nor stay upon this present world, nor presume any thing upon the creatures. Now therefore let every of us look into himself; how do we make the gifts of GOD available, by yielding our selves pliable to serve him? Nay it §50seemeth rather that when he hath made us fat, we take occasion thereby to kick against him: as it is said hereafter in the song of Moses.1 In the mean while it appeareth that we understand nothing that may avail us, to lead us in the right way. For whence cometh so much covetousness wherewith men be carried away, so that some are unsavable in their greediness, some do burn in their ambition to attain to credit, some like brute beasts do seek to fill §60their belly, and other some are carried headlong to filthiness and fornication? Thus are we all like sheep strayed from GOD. And whereof cometh this, but that we never taste of his goodness, neither do we understand it a whit, where as notwithstanding, all our wits should be applied thereto? When the world carieth us thus away, we make it manifest that we have smally profited by receiving the benefits which God with his own hand hath bestowed upon us. Forasmuch therefore as this people was at that time blamed by Moses for the unthankfulness which you see here: let us in these days cast down our eyes and confess, that although God hath mightily wrought toward us, yet do we continue as doted, and all our senses be as it were, dazzled by Satan: Insomuch that our eyes are blind, & our ears deaf, and we have no understanding nor reason. If a man reply, alleging that God hath not done any such miracle amongest us as he did amongest the Jews when he nourished them with Manna from heaven, let us mark well that which is said by our Lord Jesus Christ in the sixth chapter of John: