A17698:485
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.
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 §30utterly rejected him: but as in respect that he intended to chastise him by depriving him of a temporal benefit. And thereby we be yet more confirmed in the thing that was treated of yesterday: that is to wit, that albeit our affections be not always wicked, yet they shall not always be granted us, when God intendeth to humble us, For sometimes we may have offended him: and he must be fain to cut us off from his benefits. True it is that our salvation abideth always certain: but as for our present state, it appaireth so far as we can see, insomuch that whereas God made us to feel his favour most abundantly and in very large measure: we have but a small piece of it. If this befell to Moses: let not us think it strange if God deal after the same manner with us.
I Told you yesterday, how it was not any fleshly lust that moued Moses to desire to goe into the promised land, but a holy zeale, to the ende that ye people might haue bene the better confirmed in the grace of God. And that it is so, a man may gather by this speache, where he desireth expressely to see the good Mountaine and the Libanus. For it is verie certaine, that Ierusalem &