A17698:4498
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.
Likewise all the things that were done in the Law, had a respect to the pattern which Moses had seen in the mountain,1 and so consequently all things were spiritual, as is said of them in the 25. of Exodus. Let that then serve for one point.
Likewise all the things that were done in the Lawe, had a respect to the paterne which Moses had seene in the mountaine,1 and so consequently all things were spirituall, as is saide of them in the 25. of Exodus. Let that then serue for one point.
Much more reason is it that we nowadays should abstain from all trifling Ceremonies,§20 because our Lord Jesus Christ is come, & hath brought us the trueth of the things which were set down in shadows under the law. In the time of the Law, it behoved the high priest to be apparelled [after his peculiar manner,] yea and all the whole line of the priests had certain marks to be known by, as who would say, We be sanctified to God. But specially when the high priest was to go into the sanctuary, he was then as it were to be altogether disguised,§30 there were not the things to be perceived in him which had been in men afore: and that order was to be observed in the absence of our Lord Jesus Christ. But now all those things are abolished. Now if men invent things of their own fancy, (as we see there is an infinite gulf of gewgaws in the popedom): what will become of it? The things which God enjoined with his own mouth took their end at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And why?