A17698:4535
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.
Soothly it was requisite that the Beniamits, (at leastwise the faithful sort of them) should be comforted, because there befell horrible enormities, so as it might have seemed that God had appointed that house to be as a looking glass of his wrath. At one time all the people of Israel were fain to set themselves against them to root them out.1 And in very deed there was a solemn oath taken to have §10slain them all so as one man of them should not have been left alive: and they were driven to devise means how to save four hundred men which were not in the battle, but were by chance in a Town near by. Ye see then how the tribe of Benjamin should have been rooted out of the world.
Soothly it was requisite that the Beniamits, (at leastwise the faithfull sort of thē) should be comforted, because there befel horrible enormities, so as it might haue seemed that God had appointed that house to bee as a lookingglasse of his wrath. At one time all the people of Israel were faine to set themselues against them to roote them out.1 And in very deede there was a solemne othe taken to haue §10slaine them all so as one man of them shoulde not haue beene left aliue: and they were driuen to deuise meanes howe to saue fower hundred men which were not in the battell, but were by chaunce in a Towne neere by. Ye see then how the tribe of Beniamin should haue beene rooted out of the world.