A17698:4184
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.
But who would have thought that for one households sake, there needed so great a land as that seven nations should have bin driven out of their Country, to give place to them that were descended of one barren man, as the prophet Isaiah telleth them,1 saying: Go seek your original, get ye to the stone that ye were heawen out of; for Abraham was alone, and Sarah was a barren woman to her uttermost old age: and yet hath God made you to issue out of these two stones as it were by miracle, and not by the common order of nature: know ye therefore that he hath wrought so mightily toward you, that of duty you ought to be the more provoked to serve and honour him, that his glory may shine forth in you. Ye see then that the meaning of Moses in saying, according to the number of the children of Israel, is that forasmuch as God had foreseen that he would adopt the offspring of Abraham; he gave the Land of Canaan, not to one people alone, but to seven Nations in number.
But who wold haue thought that for one housholds sake, there needed so great a lande as that seuen nations should haue bin driuen out of their Country, to giue place to them that were descended of one barren man, as the prophet Esay telleth them,1 saying: Go seeke your originall, get ye to the stone that ye were heawen out of; for Abraham was alone, and Sara was a barren woman to her vttermost olde age: and yet hath God made you to issue out of these two stones as it were by myracle, and not by the common order of nature: knowe yee therefore that he hath wrought so mightily toward you, that of duetie you ought to be the more prouoked to serue and honour him, that his glorie may shine foorth in you. Yee see then that the meaning of Moses in saying, according to the number of the children of Israel, is that forasmuch as God had foreseene that hee would adopt the ofspring of Abraham; hee gaue the Lande of Chanaan, not to one people alone, but to seuen Nations in number.
- 1Esa. 51.