A17698:496
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.
No, God showeth me that it is not meet for me to ask whatsoever I think good, but that I must come and put my self into his hands with all humbleness, to receive what he thinks good, and to hold all my desires in obedience unto him. Seeing that he showeth me this, it behoveth me to frame my self thereunto, and §20to take that to be best for me which he shall vouchsafe to send me. Thus ye see what we have to remember in the text where God telleth Moses that he will not have him to speak any more of his going into the land of Canaan.
No, God sheweth mee that it is not meete for mee to aske whatsoeuer I thinke good, but that I must come and put my selfe into his hands with all humblenesse, to receiue what hee thinks good, and to holde all my desires in obedience vnto him. Seeing that hee sheweth mee this, it behoueth me to frame my selfe thereunto, and §20to take that to bee best for mee which hee shall vouchsafe to send mee. Thus ye see what wee haue to remember in the text where God telleth Moses that hee wil not haue him to speake any more of his going into the lande of Chanaan.
But yet for all that, he showed him the land a far off. And no doubt but that the sight of Moses reached beyond the ordinary sight of nature, and beyond all that he could conceive §30within kenning.1 True it is that in the end of this book it is said, that even in his old age, although he was then sixscore years old, yet his senses were not appaired, but continued still in their full strength. Nevertheless, when as it is said, that he extended his sight so far, as that he could view all the countries of the land of Canaan: [it is evident] that God gave him sight above the power of nature. And all this tended to this end, that Moses might be assured, that §40