A17698:4554
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.
Although he be the younger brother, yet shall he exceed his elder brother in number of people, & in all other things: and according hereunto, in the end there was such preeminence given to that tribe, that the other ten tribes of Israel were comprehended under it. When the Prophets name Ephraim, it §30is a comprehending of all the ten tribes together;1 insomuch that even Reuben who was the eldest of all, lay hid under the wings of Ephraim. And who knew that? Our Lord did so utter it by the mouth of those whom he had appointed in his place. And so we see again the thing that I said afore, namely that in this case Moses was not a private person, ne spake at random, nor of his own head; but was directed by God, to the intent it might be known, that that people §40was governed by special means as a people chosen and picked out by God from the rest of the world. True it is that God is the general creator of all mankind, and that all people are his. Yet notwithstanding, forasmuch as he had chosen the linage of Abraham; it was his will to have his power the better known there, & to hold them as his household folk, & nearer allied unto him. And therefore it was good reason that the things which are declared here, should §50be known of all the Jews, & that by that means they should be provoked to bless the name of God▪ acknowledging how greatly they were bound & tied unto him, for that he had so withdrawn them from all other nations, & vouchsafed to make them feel him to be their father, seeing he had adopted them to be his children.
Although he be the yonger brother, yet shall he exceede his elder brother in number of people, & in al other things: and according hereunto, in the end there was such preheminence giuen to that trybe, that the other ten trybes of Israel were comprehended vnder it. When the Prophets name Ephraim, it §30is a comprehending of all the ten trybes togither;1 insomuch that euen Ruben who was the eldest of all, lay hid vnder the wings of Ephraim. And who knew that? Our Lord did so vtter it by the mouth of those whom he had appointed in his place. And so we see againe the thing that I said afore, namely that in this case Moses was not a priuate person, ne spake at randon, nor of his owne head; but was directed by God, to the intent it might be knowen, that that people