A17698:3929
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 afterward he condemneth them, for that they followed them too much. Yea but those fathers did differ very much. For in this place the fathers be they whom GOD hath exalted to credit, to whom also he willeth us to stick, that is to say, the holy Patriarchs. They therefore should draw after them all their generations that there might be a true union of faith, and one accord, to prove that they be the children of Abraham: but in steed of these, they followed their bastard fathers, as S. Steven telleth them, saying, ⟨p. 1042⟩You have always resisted the holy Ghost,1 as your fathers did: and again, be not a stubborn and froward generation, as your fathers were, which provoked God to wrath in the wilderness: they were full of bitterness. Therefore we must have this difference of fathers. And if we mean now to worship the true God in such sort as is requisite, we must have the holy Patriarchs to guide us, so as we may protest that we be joined with them in true unity of faith. Also §10we must have the Apostles, which be called the fathers of the Church. For when we follow that rule, we cannot fail. And therewithal let us beware that we mingle not our selves with them that are grown out of kind from the true fathers, as the Papists do, who stick stoutly to them. For they which were backsliders, which forsook the pure doctrine of the Gospel, which also perverted and corrupted the religion of our ancient fathers: those be the very fathers of §20the Papists, which have falsely usurped that title. Let us therefore beware of such a mingling, without any discretion. Mark that for a special point. Finally, forasmuch as God hath at all times been revealed unto them that have showed us the way of salvation, let that suffice us: and let it serve to confirm our faith, that we be not hindered in the submitting of our selves unto him to whom we owe all manner of obedience: nor become so fickleheaded as to turn §30from that which hath been taught us from the beginning: for we have the law, which beareth us witness, that the religion which we hold at this day, hath been always among the Patriarchs, and that it was then ratified when the people were brought out of Egypt.