A17698:4238
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 therefore we at this day §30may well protect against the Papists, Turks, and Jews themselves, that they be backsliders, and have withdrawn themselves from the true and pure religion, and that we continue in the doctrine which hath been followed in all ages, worshipping the God which created us, which gave forth his law by the hand of Moses, and which hath uttered himself most perfectly by the Gospel. Bring we here any new thing? Say we that men must have §40new rules and new fashions invented by men at the Papists do? For all their Religion is grounded upon these points, namely, that they must keep the traditions of their elders, that they must observe the laws of their mother holy Church, that the same must be taken in equal authority with the holy Scripture, and that the holy Ghost was not given fully enough to the Apostles, but that the perfection of things was revealed afterwards to a sort of hypocrites and I wot not to whom §50else. Those are things whereon the Papists rest. The Turks are altogether Renegades. The Jews have perverted the law, and have no more of it but the dead letter, because they have refused Jesus Christ who is the soul thereof as Saint Paul termeth him.1 So then, we may well protest, that our faith is ancient, for as much as it is grounded upon Gods trueth, who never changeth ne varieth, and that men have not taught us any thing on their §60own head, but that we have the same God which hath uttered him self in all ages, and that we follow the doctrine whereunto he would have men to hold themselves, which likewise is everlasting. Thus much concerning the first point.
And therefore wee at this day §30may well protect against the Papistes, Turkes, and Iewes themselues, that they bee backeslyders, and haue withdrawen themselues from the true and pure religion, and that wee continue in the doctrine which hath beene followed in all ages, worshipping the God which created vs, which gaue foorth his lawe by the hand of Moses, and which hath vttered himself most perfectly by the Gospel. Bring wee here any newe thing? Say wee that men must haue