A17698:3956
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 he will first make you to feel his goodness and patience, and when you have considered both twain §40of them, then is it time or else never to call your selves to remembrance, and not to continue still brutish and senseless as you have bin afore. That is the thing which we have to mark in the first place.
For he wil first make you to feele his goodnesse and patience, and when you haue considered both twain §40of them, then is it time or else neuer to call your selues to rememberance, and not to continue still brutish and senselesse as you haue bin afore. That is the thing which we haue to mark in the first place.
Now lastly he saith, When God hath cast thee ou• among the strange nations, if thou return there unto thy heart, (That is the word which Moses useth, but he taketh it for remembrance) so as thou turn again with all thine affection unto the §50Lord thy God to obey him, he will then have pity on thee. Whereas he saith that the people shall be driven out of the land, it is the uttermost of all the punishments whereof he had made mention afore, according to that which we have already touched, namely that the land of Canaan was as it were a warrant, that GOD took the Jews for the household people of his realm, of purpose to lead them from thence to the inheritance of the kingdom §60of heaven. Now on the other side, when the Jews were driven out of the said Land, they were as people aliened from God. Alas [might they say] what a case is this? For our God which stretched out his hand to bring us out of the land of Egypt, did promise us therewithal that we should possess all the land that he gave to our father Abraham, and that it was unto us a token and a mark of his Adoption: but now be we deprived thereof, and that is a token that he hath utterly forsaken us. Upon this forewarning we have to gather, that seeing God, (after mean punishments) did not only promise and offer his mercy unto the Jews, but also even when the rigour seemed extreme, and the wounds incurable, yet he left them some hope, howbeit not unto all,