A17698:4194
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.
and so much the more ought you to consider the favour which he hath showed you, that ye may perceive how much you be bound unto him. Now then, ye were in a wilderness: and after what sort? There was not one grain of Corn to feed you withal, there was not one drop of water for you to drink, he was fain to make water to issue out of a dry rock miraculously for you, he made Manna to fall from heaven. Ye §20were in a place where ye could not build you one house, ye were there among the wild beasts, so as ye must needs have perished, and therefore a man needs not to use long discourses to show how God was bountiful unto you. For ye were as good as in a grave by the space of forty years, and yet God kept you alive after a strange fashion & unknown to men. Ye were destitute of food and drink, & God furnished your turn. Your shoes, your hose, & your garments did not §30rot all that while. Now then, seeing that God maintained you after that manner against the common order of nature; did he not show thereby what care he had of you, and what love he bare unto you? So then, look that ye never forget so great benefits, specially being so many and so huge in number as he hath done for you.
and so much the more ought you to consider the fauour which he hath shewed you, that yee may perceiue howe much you be bounde vnto him. Now then, ye were in a wildernesse: and after what sorte? There was not one graine of Corne to feede you withall, there was not one drop of water for you to drinke, he was faine to make water to issue out of a dry rocke miraculously for you, hee made Manna to fall from heauen. Ye §20were in a place where yee coulde not build you one house, ye were there among the wild beasts, so as ye must needes haue perished, and therfore a man needes not to vse long discourses to shew how God was bountiful vnto you. For ye were as good as in a graue by the space of forty yeeres, and yet God kept you aliue after a straunge fashion & vnknowen to men. Ye were destitute of foode and drinke, & God furnished your turne. Your shooes, your hose, & your garments did not §30rotte all that while. Now then, seeing that God maintained you after that manner against the commō order of nature; did he not shew thereby what care he had of you, and what loue he bare vnto you? So then, looke that ye neuer forget so great benefites, specially being so many and so huge in number as he hath done for you.