A17698:4003
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.
Chapter, that he bare the burden of all our offences: as if he had been a miserable sinner; and was environed with such extreme sorrow, that he wist not what to say, but to cry out:1 My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And think we that the son of God dallied when he was so humbled, yea and not only was made utterly of no reputation, as Saint §40Paul sayeth: but also fought with the pangs and sorrows of death?2 He offered himself in the person of us, as a wretched sinner to bear that vengeance of God which was due unto us, so as (to be short) he knew that God was bent against him, to thunder down upon him for our sakes. Forasmuch then as we know that Jesus Christ abode such encounters for our redemption: stand we yet still scanning and replying, as who would say, O I cannot tell,§50 and how can I be sure of it? Surely that were even as much as to deny the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. For it is a plain scorning of all that he hath endured and suffered for our salvation, when we acknowledge not the fruit that doeth grow unto us thereby. So then the first point is, that having the Gospel, we have whereupon to rest, so as we need not to allege: What is he that shall go down into hell? For Jesus Christ §60hath been there, to the end that we should not come there at all: and at this day he giveth us witness of the same by the Gospel, to the intent we should know that his death hath always present power and operation for all such as flee unto it for refuge.
Chapter, that hee bare the burden of all our offences: as if he had beene a miserable sinner; and was enuironed with such extreme sorowe, that hee wist not what to say, but to crie out:1 My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And thinke wee that the sonne of God dalyed when he was so humbled, yea and not onely was made vtterly of no reputation, as Sainct §40Paul saieth: but also fought with the pangues and sorrowes of death?