A17698:424
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.
it may well seem that they be left as a pray, and that there is no §60way for them to stand against their enemies. But what for that? God hath already determined what he will do. As for the execution thereof, it doth not appear at the first: but when as the faithful have this promise given unto them, I will deliver thine enemies into thy hand: they must have an eye to the thing that is yet hidden. And for the same purpose doth Saint Paul say,1 GOD will shortly put Satan under your feet. And for the same purpose also doth he say in another place: that Satan hath his power and dominion in the air.2 It should seem by this, that Satan is over our heads, and that he should overwhelm us. But behold here on the other side, how God avoweth that he hath put him under our feet; and that for all the skirmishes which he can make against us, and for all the alarums that he can give us, yet shall he not get the upper hand of us,3 no nor once prick us in the heel, but we shall tread upon his head. Lo how God hath assured us of victory. What is to be done then? Let us look at Satan and all our ghostly enemies, as already vanquished, and assure our selves aforehand that God will make us to triumph in the middest of our battles, so as we may glory in our God as though our enemies were already dispatched, and we rid quite and clean of them. And why? For the insight of our faith must rest upon his promise where it is said, I have delivered thine enemies into thy hand.
it may well seeme that they be left as a pray, and that there is no §60way for them to stand against their enemies. But what for that? God hath already determined what he will doe. As for the execution thereof, it doth not appeare at the first: but when as the faithfull haue this promise giuen vnto them, I will deliuer thine enemies into thy hand: they must haue an eye to the thing that is yet hidden. And for the same purpose doth Saint Paul say,1 GOD wil shortly put Satan vnder your feete. And for the same purpose also doth he say in another place: that Satan hath his power and dominion in the aire.