A17698:4198
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 now let us mark well, that Moses having said that God found his people in a wilderness, addeth that he led them up and down there, that he nurtured them there, and that he kept them there as the apple of his eye. By this term of leading up & down, Moses doth the people to understand, that it was not for a day or twain, nor for some short time that God made them to taste his goodness, but that he had continued it by the space of forty years together. Likewise, his heaping up of these words together, A desert land, a desolate coū try, a place full of roarings, a barren ground, is not ⟨p. 1120⟩for nought, but serveth to touch the people the better to the quick, that they might call to mind what plight they had bin in before their coming into the land of promise, where Gods blessing was poured out upon them most abundantly. And therefore the word Lead betokened as much at that time as if Moses should have said, Ye wretched people, had God uttered his love & goodness towards you but for one month, the same ought to have bin remembered of you for ever, so §10as you should never have forgotten it. But now, it is not one month no nor one year, but whole forty years together, that God hath held on & continued his goodness towards you: of all which time your fathers having not a crumb of bread to eat, were miraculously fed with Manna from heaven; nor having any wine or other liquor to drink, had water given them out of the rock. And as they shifted from place to place, GOD gave a continual course to the water,1 §20wherewith to refresh themselves and their cattle. Seeing then that God hath so imprinted his grace that it may be well known of you in the great number of good turns which he hath done for you: you be the less to be held excused, if ye make not account of the glorifying of your God, who hath showed himself so liberal towards you.
And now let vs marke well, that Moses hauing sayd that God found his people in a wildernesse, addeth that he led them vp and downe there, that hee nur•ured them there, and that he kept them there as the apple of his eye. By this terme of leading vp & down, Moses dooth the people to vnderstand, that it was not for a day or twaine, nor for some short time that God made them to taste his goodnes, but that he had continued it by the space of forty yeeres together. Lykewise, his heaping vp of these words together, A desert land, a desolate coū trie, a place full of roringes, a barraine ground, is not