A17698:4277
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.
23 I will heap evils upon them, and I will bestow mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and consumed with heat and with bitter destruction. Also I will send them the teeth of beasts, with the venom of Serpents that trail in the dust. 25 The sword shall rob them of their children without, and in their chambers shall be fearfulness upon the young woman and the maid, the sucking child and the man with the hoar head. 26 I have said I will scatter them abroad, and make the remembrance of them to cease from among men. 27 Were it not that I feared the disdain of the enemy, least peradventure their adversaries should wax strange and say: Our hand is high, and it is not the Lord that hath done all this thing.
23 I will heape euilles vppon them, and I will bestowe mine arrowes vppon them. 24 They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate and with bitter destruction. Also I will sende them the teeth of beastes, with the venime of Serpentes that traile in the dust. 25 The sword shal rob them of their children without, and in their chambers shalbe fearefulnesse vpon the young woman and the mayde, the sucking child and the man with the hore head. 26 I haue saide I will scatter them abroade, and make the remembraunce of them to cease from among men. 27 Were it not that I feared the disdayne of the enemie, least peraduenture their aduersaries should wax straunge and say: Our hande is high, and it is not the Lorde that hath done all this thing.
WE saw yesterday how Moses having spoken of Gods vengeance to the people of Israel showed how dreadful the same is, because men are not so moved at the first as were requisite, at leastwise to consider their own naughtiness, & to be displeased at it, that they might humble themselves §60& be ashamed thereof before God. For inasmuch as men are slow unto that, our Lord showeth that his threatening of them is not in sport, and therefore that it is not for them to fall asleep at it and to take their ease, but rather to tremble and quake. Now pursuing the same matter, Moses addeth That he will send upon that people all the evils that can be devised, that he will let fly his arrows at them to the utter consuming of them, that he will arm the wild beasts against them, that he will send venomous serpents among them, which though they glide in the dust, shall nevertheless without fail fasten upon them with their teeth, that they shall be starved for hunger, that he will send them burning diseases, enemies without doors, and fear within doors, and that he will not spare their babes nor their old men, nor any thing else. It might seem at the first sight, that GOD were overrigorous. For seeing that God had chosen the