A17698:4332
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.
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.§40 True it is that we will not say it with open mouth, nay we will abhor to say so: for if it be demanded of the veriest naughty-packs, whether God govern not the world, or whether he know not all mens faults: they will say yes. But yet for all that, it is certain that such as provoke him so boldly, are so dull headed and brutish, that to their seeming God seeth them not: and the Scripture is full of that thing.1 Shall not he which hath made the ear,§50 hear? Shall he be blind which hath created the eye. Shall not he which fashioneth mens harts understand all their thoughts? And they again have said on their part, God shall not perceive it. To be short, experience showeth that when men have hardened themselves in their sins, they do also bear themselves in hand that God thinketh not any more upon them, but that he turneth his back and forgetteth them. Lo at what point we be. But our §60Lord telleth here on the contrary part, that all those things are laid up in his treasures, and fast sealed. As if he should say, true it is that at the first dash I show not that your sins are come to my knowledge, I make as though I saw them not. Now because I use such patience, you imagine that I sit idle in heaven, and let you alone, and mind not any more the government of the world. Therefore ye abuse my goodness when my vengeance is not seen out of hand: but yet are all those things laid up in store by me, and fast sealed up in my treasures.
Now hee addeth thereunto, Is not this layd vp ith ? Is not this sealed vp among my treasures? This text comprehendeth two thinges. For first of all God sheweth that sinners beguile themselues,