A17698:4182
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.
8 When the highest divided to the Nations their inheritances: and when he separated the Sons of men: then did he set the bounds of Nations according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lords portion is his own people, and Jacob is the meteline of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert Land, and in a horrible wilderness where nothing was to be heard but roaring. He led him up and down, and gave him understanding, and kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As the Eagle stirreth up her nest, hovering over her young ones, and spreading out her wings, taketh them up, and carieth them upon her wings:
8 When the highest diuided to the Nations their inheritaunces: and when hee separated the Sonnes of men: then did he set the boundes of Nations according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lordes portion is his owne people, and Iacob is the meteline of his inheritaunce. 10 He founde him in a desert Lande, and in a horrible wildernesse where nothing was to bee heard but roaring. He led him vp and downe, and gaue him vnderstanding, and kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As the Eagle stirreth vp her neast, houering ouer her young ones, and spreading out her wings, taketh them vp, and caryeth them vpon her wings:
WE have seen already heretofore, how the intent of Moses in this text is, to show the children of Israel how greatly they be bound unto God, in that he loved them, and chose them out from among all the nations of the §30earth, and adopted them to be his children without any desert of theirs, or without having any respect of their worthiness, only of his own mere mercy. Now hereupon he saith, That when God distributed the world into parts, assigning all Nations their Countries: he held still this Land for the heritage of his people. True it is that notwithstanding this, he did as it were lend the land of Canaan for a time to the old inhabitants thereof, that is, to the Hittites, the Hevites, the §40Pheresites, the Canaanites, and such like. His assigning of that Country to them was not for ever, for he reserved it till the time that he should fetch his own people out of Egypt. And we must mark, that at that time Abraham was not yet borne, neither was there then any people of Israel: Howe can it then be, that God should be provoked by any desert, seeing he took the thing which as then had not any being? Yea and let us mark always, that the