A17698:4539
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.
True it is that in the end all that Country was harried, and we see how the Prophet Jeremiah sayeth thereof,1 that Rachel mourned for her children (for Benjamin came of her) and sorrowed to see such desolation & wast made, & could not be comforted because all were ⟨p. 1211⟩destroyed, and no tidings could be brought unto her of any residue that remained, but she saw that all her blood was shed, whereupon she was in anguish and as a woman forlorn. Surely Rachel was at that time dead: but the Prophet Jeremiah speaketh of her in way of a similitude, and setteth her as a mother upon a scaffold weeping and lamenting to see one cut the throats of all her children. Thus ye see what befell; but that was an utter extremity. Yet for §10all this, God ceased not to perform his promise; but at the end even in the midst of Babylon, even in that gulf, he reserved a remnant of Benjamin, which returned home with the tribe of Judah. They that were much more excellent in dignity became as banished folk, and God forsook them as rotten members, so as they returned not any more into the inheritance of the land of Canaan, & the resting place which god had foreappointed to their fathers. Ye see then §20how God continued still his grace towards the tribe of Benjamin; not that they had not horrible punishments, as it fell out afterwards, but that God by his infinite goodness overcame the naughtiness of men.
True it is that in the ende all that Countrie was harryed, and wee see howe the Prophet Ieremie saieth thereof,1 that Rachel mourned for her children (for Beniamin came of her) and sorrowed to see such desolation & wast made, & could not be cōforted because all were ⟨p. 1211⟩destroyed, and no tydings coulde bee brought vnto her of any residue that remained, but shee sawe that all her bloude was shed, whereuppon shee was in anguish and as a woman forlorne. Surely Rachel was at that time deade: but the Prophet Ieremie speaketh of her in way of a similitude, and setteth her as a mother vppon a scaffolde weeping and lamenting to see one cut the throats of all her children. Thus ye see what befell; but that was an vtter extremitie. Yet for