A17698:3964
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 for a more confirmation thereof he addeth, Although thou wert dispersed into the uttermost coasts under heaven, yet the Lord thy God will fetch thee from thence, and bring thee again into this land which he hath promised thy fathers, and there he will increase thee more than ever thou wast. §40Moses doeth here show that we must not mistrust God, albeit that there be nothing but troubles, miseries and calamities, so as we be utterly forlorn. Let us have an eye to this comfort. For ye see here how the people of Israel was like a body torn in pieces, and driven away as dust before the wind: and yet notwithstanding God doeth promise to gather them together again. Now seeing he hath wrought so with them; we must understand that he will do the §50like toward us at this day, and that although we were dispersed, he will not fail to hold us under his protection, so as we shall be gathered together again, if Jesus Christ do the office of a Shepherd toward us, and we be of his flock. And hath he not in deed accomplished toward us that which is spoken here? We must consider, not only how God hath gathered us in, when we were under the tyranny of the Pope; but moreover how he hath assembled §60us here in a flock: we must understand that we be here united all together, as if we were of one household. Whereas we were dispersed and aliened from our Lord Jesus Christ, he hath now reunited us to himself. For as Paul sayeth to the Colossians, his office is to gather all things together as well in heaven as in earth.1 So long as we be cut off from the unity of faith, and aliened from Jesus Christ, we be like dust driven with the wind•, and in such confused state have we been, but God hath delivered us from it. As often therefore as we come into extremity, let us understand that God would have us yet to turn unto him, and will give us furtherance thereunto: wherefore let us pluck up our hearts, following the exhortation that is given us here.
Yea and for a more confirmation thereof he addeth, Although thou wert dispersed into the vttermost coastes vnder heauen, yet the Lorde thy God will fetch thee from thence, and bring thee againe into this lande which he hath promised thy fathers, and there hee will increase thee more than euer thou wast.