A17698:4216
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 Moses addeth immediately, that God carried up his people, (or made them to ride up) upon the high places of the earth, and gave them the fruits thereof to feed them, namely the butter of Kine, the milk of sheep, the fat of Muttons, of Lambs, and of Goats, the fat of Corn and the blood of Grapes, (for so he termeth them:) and that he made them to eat Oil out of the hard stones and honey out of the Rocks. Hereby Moses meant to utter how liberal (yea even beyond all opinion of man) God showed §30himself towards his people. His speaking of the high places of the earth, is in respect of the situation of the land of Canaan: for it is high in comparison of Egypt and of the countries thereabouts. To say (as some have imagined) that it is the middest and (as ye would say) the Navel of the earth, is to no purpose. Because mention is made of the mids of the earth among the Prophets,1 some have surmised that God meant to bound it out, as if he had been some Geometrician §40that should have butteled and bounded the whole world. But whereas it is said, in the mids of the earth, it is meant, in the mids of the land that is to say, of Jewry. Yet notwithstanding, as I said afore, the Land of Canaan is high, if a man have an eye to any of all the Countries round about it. Again, it hath many mountains and high Rocks in it, insomuch that at the first fight a man would take it to be barren. And therefore Moses declareth that the people should §50eat honey out of the Rocks, and Oil out of the hard stones: that is to say, that where men would think there were nothing but wilderness, there would God make Olive trees to grow: and where men would think to be nothing but barrenness, there they should gather honey, and (to be short) that everywhere there should be nothing but sweetness and abundance.
And Moses addeth immediatly, that God caried vp his people, (or made them to ride vp) vppon the high places of the earth, and gaue them the fruites thereof to feede them, namely the butter of Kyne, the milke of sheepe, the fat of Muttons, of Lambes, and of Goates, the fat of Corne and the bloud of Grapes, (for so he termeth them:) and that he made them to eate Oyle out of the harde stones and honny out of the Rocks. Hereby Moses ment to vtter howe liberall (yea euen beyonde all opinion of man) God shewed