A17698:484
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.
26 And the Lord God was angry with me for your sakes, and heard me not, but said unto me, be contented, speak no more to me of this matter. 27 Get thee up to the top of Phasga, and lift up thine eyes towards the West, the North, the South and the East: and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and strengthen him, and embolden him: for he shall go over before the people, & put them in possession of the land which thou shalt see. 29 And so we abode in the valley against Beth-phogor.
26 And the Lord God was angrie with mee for your sakes, and heard mee not, but said vnto mee, be contented, speake no more to mee of this matter. 27 Get thee vp to the top of Phasga, and lift vp thine eyes towardes the West, the North, the South and the East: and beholde with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go ouer this Iordan. 28 But charge Iosua, and strengthen him, and imbolden him: for hee shall goe ouer before the people, & put them in possession of the land which thou shalt see. 29 And so we abode in the valley against Beth-phogor.
I Told you yesterday, how it was not any fleshly lust that moved Moses to desire to go into the promised land, but a holy zeal, to the end that the people might have been the better confirmed in the grace of God. And that it is so, a man may gather by this speech, where he desireth expressly to see the good Mountain and the Libanus. For it is very certain, that Jerusalem & §10the Country about it, were neither the best, nor the fairest nor the fruitfullest of all Jury. There were other soils, which were both richer and pleasanter also. And yet doeth Moses prefer Libanus and the good Mountain before all the rest. And no doubt but he meaneth the Mountain Morea. We see then that he rested wholly upon the things that were spiritual, because God had revealed unto him that the Temple should be builded there, & that it was the place §20which God had chosen to be worshipped and called upon there. That was the cause why he set all his mind upon it. And therefore let us mark, that Moses desired not to enter into that land, to fill his belly there, or to live in delight and pleasure there: but only to stir up himself the more to know Gods grace, which he had tasted already in spirit, and likewise to help the people by his example. Yet for all this, he is refused, howbeit not in such wise as if God had