A17698:4607
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.
On Monday the xiij. of July, 1556. The CXCVIII. Sermon, which is the eighth upon the xxxiij. Chapter.
On Munday the xiij. of Iuly, 1556. The CXCVIII. Sermon, which is the eighth vpon the xxxiij. Chapter.
26 There is none like the God of Israel, who rideth upon the heavens to help thee, and whose glory is in the clouds. 27 Thy dwelling place is the Everlasting God, & under his arms shalt thou be for ever. He will put thine enemies to flight before thee, & say, destroy them. 28 Israel shall dwell in safety alone. The eye of Jacob shall dwell upon a land of corn and wine: and his heavens shall drop dues.
26 There is none like the God of Israel, who rideth vpon the heauens to help thee, and whose glorie is in the clowdes. 27 Thy dwelling place is the Euerlasting God, & vnder his armes shalt thou be for euer. He will put thine enemies to flight before thee, & say, destroy them. 28 Israel shall dwell in safetie alone. The eye of Iacob shall dwel vpon a land of corne and wine: and his heauens shall drop dewes.
WE can well enough confess in one word the greatness and highness of God: but yet ye shall scarcely find one man of a hundred, which yieldeth unto God that which belongeth unto him. For every man will needs have his share of it, as though it were a booty or a pray.§60 For proof whereof, who is he that presumeth not either upon his own virtue, or upon his riches, or upon his courage, or upon his credit and authority? And by these means God is robbed of his glory. On the other side, if we perceive any danger, which of us trusteth and resteth upon God which of us setteth his heart upon him? Nay, we be utterly dismayed. And what else betokeneth this, but that after we have declared with our mouth that God is almighty, that he governeth the world, that nothing can let him to perform what he listeth; we show by our doings that we believe none of all those things, or else that we be not fully & throughly persuaded of them? And therefore it is not for nought that the scripture doeth so magnify God unto us, declaring unto us that we cannot sufficiently consider his infinite highness and power which is in him to do whatsoever he hath ordained.