A17698:4173
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.
Again, they have a kind of concurrence, or running together, wherethrough they be as companions with GOD, so as they work together with his grace, or else do so answer thereunto, that Gods grace doth nothing but by halves. Lo at what ⟨p. 1114⟩point the Papists are▪ and by that reason they should be half their own creators. For I have declared already, (and the very truth is so), that it is a far greater thing for us to be counted of the Church, than of the common kind of men: for it is a far nobler creation to be the children of God, than to be the children of Adam. Yet notwithstanding, the Papists do challenge the one half thereof to themselves, saying that they dispose themselves to it by their own freewill,§10 and that they deserve grace at Gods hand, and also that they work together therewithal. By which reason, the one […] of this creation, which is the excellentest, shall belong to men. And what a treachery wore that? Therefore when we hear that it is God that made us, and not we our selves;1 let us not make account of our selves nor be puffed up with the wind of presumption, which serveth to no purpose but to make us to swell. Let us understand then that we §20have nothing of our own, but that all is Gods, in that it hath pleased him to call us to his word, it is not we. A man might think it strange why it should be said, it is not we that have created our selves: for there is none of us all but he knoweth it and confesseth it. B•• if we have an eye to the fond and devilish overweening wherewith men are besotted: we shall see that this kind of speech is not superfluous, but that the holy ghost meant to exclude all such foolish imaginations,§30 to the intent that men should not reserve aught to themselves, but yield fully unto God▪ that which is belonging unto him. And that is the cause also why S. Paul saith in the second Chapter to the Ephesians;2