A17698:4615
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.
And that is the cause why Moses addeth, that his dwelling place shall be on high, or that the sovereign §30God shall be his dwelling place, and that his arms are always under him. Truly, this word dwelling place is expounded as if it were meant that God is the harbour of his servants, after which manner it is said in the song of Moses in the ninetieth Psalm:1 Lord thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. And this kind of similitude is very often set down, to show that we should be set open to wind and rain, heat and cold, if our Lord preserved us §40not, and that we were not harboured under his wings. This interpretation then were very convenient and profitable, namely that the dwelling place of the sovereign & everlasting God is a sure abode, and therefore that it is for our behoof to get us under him, for there we shall be in safety, and we shall be well lodged as it is said thereof in the fourscore & eleventh Psalm.2 And (as I said afore) it is a doctrine which is to be seen almost in every leaf of the holy scripture,§50 Howbeit forasmuch as there is great briefness in the words, and there is no more said but the dwelling of God everlasting: it will come all to one point if it be taken, that Gods abiding is everlasting, so as he fleeteth not as we see that we do, who are fain to trot up and down here beneath in the world, without any certain stay. What is the life of men, yea, even of those which think themselves to be lodged in their nest, never to go out of it? Yet must they walk §60here & there. And in very deed there passeth not one minute of an hour without some change of us. Though a man sit still or lye still, yet beareth he changes continually with him, and he himself changeth in the conceits of his mind; and he is ever as a shadow. Like as we see a shadow continually fleeting to remove from the one side to the other: even so is it with men. I say they be continually fleeting, which showeth well that their life slippeth away. But contrariwise it is said, that Gods abiding is everlasting, according as S. James sayeth that there befalleth no shadowing unto him.