A17698:4441
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.
but being a Patriarch, and knowing whereto God had called him, he uttered what was to come, accordingly also as we see how he speaketh by the spirit of Prophecy. And in good sooth, ye see he was a poor man, such a one as was constrained by famine to go into Egypt, he possessed not a foot of land in the whole world, and yet he assigned inheritances to his children. Thou shalt have such a portion by the seacoast;1 Thou shalt have the pasture grounds; Thou shalt be a delicate soil for kings; so as the bread which shall be made there, and the sweet fruits of thee shall be their strength; thou shalt have the royal sceptre; thou shalt be advanced, & thou shalt reign among thine enemies; As for thee, thou shalt be scattered, but yet shalt thou have ease of body, although thou be fain to remove here and there. Seeing then that he took order after that manner for the land of Canaan, that although he was driven thence by famine, yet he allotted it out by portions to his children: spake he as a mortal man? Let us know then that God governed him by his holy spirit, and there came not that word out of his mouth, which was not as a heavenly oracle. Now hereby the people were edified, so as they knew that God had chosen them with condition that they should enter into the inheritance which he had promised them. When the children of Israel were in Egypt after the decease of their father, they were by this means certified that God had not forgotten his promise, but that he would perform it when the time came. They were fed with that hope; and to hold them thereunto, God had given them occasion enough, if their own unthankfulness had not letted them. This being done, after that they had bin delivered out of the land ⟨p. 1185⟩of Egypt, and were to enjoy the Land which had bin assigned them long afore: God made Moses to speak, and drave him to utter that which he had determined to do as touching the children of Israel. And in very deed, we see that the things which had bin spoken afore by Jacob, are partly rehearsed here again for the larger confirmation of them. And again, the things which were not revealed at that time, are set down here; so as the people of Israel might here behold §10their own state to come, whereby they were taught that God had a special care of them.