A17698:4371
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.
39 See now how it is I, even I that am God, and there is no God with me. It is I that kill and make alive again, I wound and heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. ⟨p. 1166⟩40 For I lift up my hand to heaven: and as for me, I live for ever. 41 If I whet the edge of my sword, and my hand lay hold of Judgement: I will execute vengeance upon mine adversaries, and pay them their hire which hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall devour the bloody flesh of the slain, and of the prisoners at the beginning of the vengeance of the enemies. 43 Ye nations praise you his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and yield vengeance to his adversaries: but he will be favourable to his own land, and to his own people.
39 See nowe howe it is I, euen I that am God, and there is no God with mee. It is I that kill and make aliue againe, I wounde and heale, and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand. ⟨p. 1166⟩40 For I lift vp my hande to heauen: and as for mee, I liue for euer. 41 If I whet the edge of my sworde, and my hande lay holde of Iudgement: I will execute vengeaunce vpon mine aduersaries, and pay them their hyre which hate mee. 42 I will make mine arrowes drunken with bloude, and my sworde shall deuoure the bloudie flesh of the slaine, and of the prisoners at the beginning of the vengeance of the enemies. 43 Yee nations prayse you his people: for hee will auenge the bloude of his seruauntes, and yeeld vengeance to his aduersaries: but he will be fauorable to his owne lande, and to his owne people.
WE saw yesterday how it is not enough to know, that there is nothing but vanity and leasing in Idols, and in all the superstitions that men have devised of their own heads: but that §20the chief point is to know God to do him homage, to walk in his fear, and to consider how dreadful his majesty is. Now heerewithall we must mark also, that when we once know God to be too great a Lord to be dallied withal, if he chastise us for offending him, we must taste of his mercy to return freely unto him, being throughly persuaded and resolved, that we shall find mercy at his hand, though we be unworthy of it. And that is the cause why he saith, That it is he which killeth and