A17698:4242
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.
Yea and we must bethink us of that which is said in the second Chapter of Jeremiah. Go your ways (saith he) into all the countries afar off,1 get ye over the sea, seek throughout all the isles, and see if there be any people that forsaketh their gods: yet are they no gods, they §20be but idols and dead things: but you have forsaken me, even me who am the fountain of living water. God showeth there that idolaters are wilful in their leasings: insomuch that although the devil have so bewitched them that they be void of discretion and reason, & cannot judge of any thing: yet notwithstanding they be wedded still to their follies. And because they think they do well, they hold them to it, and they can by no means be turned §30from it. Ye shall see them as greatly bent to their wills, as may be, and yet they have no foundation nor proof thereof. Now then, that we which have known Gods trueth; which are sure that it is he which created and shaped us, and which hath uttered himself to us by his law, by his Prophets, and by his Gospel; that we which have such warrant and certainty, that we which have the fathers & the great cloud of witnesses to guide us (as the Apostle §40termeth them in the Epistle to the Hebrews:2) that we which after the Apostles have also had the Martyrs & those which have received the Gospel with pure obedience, & followed the simplicity thereof: that we (I say) should yet notwithstanding love better the corruption, dung, & filthiness brought in by men, & that we should find in our hearts to have Gods word falsified among us: what a rhing were that? Must it not needs be that we be as it were mad, when we §50be o unsteadfast & light minded, as to start away from that which is certain and infallible? After that manner then must we put this text in ure, to the intent we be not accused before God, as seekers of new gods which were not known to our fathers, & which came up but a while ago.
Yea and wee must bethinke vs of that which is sayd in the seconde Chapter of Ieremy. Go your wayes (sayth hee) into all the countryes afarre off,