A17698:4331
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.
Where are the daggers and swords wherewith GOD can be wounded Nay he showeth that our sins are taken as ••re to heart, as though they were daggers to wound him withal. Now seeing it is so, and that our God having chosen us for his vine and planted us, doth also take pain still to husband us; let us learn not to yield him so harsh and bitter fruit, but rather to regard what he demandeth of us, and thereunto apply §20our selves, that in the end we be not condemned to have bin as Sodom and Gomorrah, whereas he would have had us to have bin his holy city, and he himself would have dwelled among us, as in his sanctuary and dwelling house.
Where are the daggers and swordes wherewith GOD can bee wounded• Nay hee sheweth that our sinnes are taken as ••re to heart, as though they were daggers to wound him withall. Now seeing it is so, and that our God hauing chosen vs for his vine and planted vs, dooth also take payne still to husband vs; let vs learne not to yeelde him so harsh and bitter fruite, but rather to regarde what hee demaundeth of vs, and thereunto apply §20our selues, that in the end we bee not condemned to haue bin as Sodom and Gomorre, whereas hee would haue had vs to haue bin his holy citie, and he himselfe woulde haue dwelled among vs, as in his sanctuary and dwellinghouse.
Now he addeth thereunto, Is not this laid up •ith […]? Is not this sealed up among my treasures? This text comprehendeth two things. For first of all God showeth that sinners beguile themselves,§30 imagining to scape his hand as though his eyes were blindfold, or as though he regarded not the things that men do here below. And secondly he showeth that he also will therefore do his office, that is to wit, that forasmuch as he knoweth their sins and wicked deeds, he will also punish them as they deserve. Those are the two points which we have to mark. Now as touching the first, we know that men do always surmise that God perceiveth them not.