A17698:4661
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 scarcely shall ye find one among a hundred, which is moved and stirred up to acknowledge the punishment of sin & the curse of God which is spread over all the sons of Adam. That then §30is the thing which we have to remember in the first place.
and scarsly shall yee finde one among a hundred, which is mooued and stirred vp to acknowledge the punishment of sinne & the curse of God which is spred ouer all the sonnes of Adam. That then §30is the thing which we haue to remember in the first place.
There is another second end. That is to wit, when God taketh away a man that was able to do service in his Church either publicly or privately, we ought to be sorry for it forasmuch as our Lord chastiseth us. If there be a good Shepherd, a good Prince, a good Magistrate, a man of counsel, or any other that is fit to serve the whole body; and §40God taketh him away: we ought to be sorry for him; and not without cause: for it is a sign that he is minded to diminish his grace in us. And ought we not to be grieved in feeling Gods wrath? On the other side we see how it is said, that our Lord taketh away the righteous,1 when he hath any vengeance in a readiness: he calleth away his servants to rest, that they may be free from the mischief which is at hand. Therefore when God taketh away the excellent §50men from among us, it is always a threatening unto us. For it is all one as if he told us, that we be not worthy to have him to dwell in our company, according to this saying in the Epistle to the Hebrews,2 that the world was not worthy to have the men that served God with such virtuous conversation. True it is that men mislike of them and thrust them out of their company, as though they were not worthy to go upon the earth. But yet on