A17698:4268
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 here we see yet much better the thing which I told you afore, namely that GOD used long sufferance towards such as were worthy to have been thundered upon out of hand: for between the Law and our Lord Jesus Christ there were about two thousand years. And if we reckon the years, the Jews began to meddle with the infections & filthiness of the heathen by setting up of idols by and by after the death of Joshua. Ye see then how God suffered above eighteen hundred years to pass, waiting still for some amendment. ⟨p. 1138⟩Not that he dissembled with them, for he chastised them to put them in mind of their faults. And they returned unto him. But yet by and by after they fell away new again. Insomuch that when they had acknowledged that those harms befell them for their sins sakes, and had given some token of repentance: by and by, or within a while after they fell to their old bias again: and God likewise fell to punishing them new again. At the last came the §10captivity of Babylon which is described to have been so horrible and unhappy, that it banished them out of the Land which he had promised them for their inheritance, and they were driven out of their own houses. Nevertheless, in the end GOD pitied them and brought them home again. Notwithstanding, they were no sooner come home into their native country, and restored to liberty, but by and by they became again worse than before. Therefore §20was GOD also fain to punish them with punishment upon punishment even to the uttermost. Then came our Lord Jesus Christ to remedy all their diseases, in respect whereof he is justly called even the resurrection of the dead.1 For although the Jews had then been all scattered abroad, yet would God have gathered them home again to him by the hand of his son, if they had known the day of their visitation. But they well bewray that they §30be wilfully bent against GOD, and that there is nothing but bitterness and venom, yea and devilish rage in them. For it sufficed them not to have scorned the grace which was offered unto them, and the redemption which they had pretended to have longed for so greatly; but they did also crucify the Redeemer which was sent unto them. Forasmuch therefore as the Jews did utterly refuse all the grace of God: the Gospel was published through the whole