A17698:545
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 now he sayeth expressly, You that have clea•ed to your God are all alive this day. This serveth not so much to make the people glad: as to show them that seeing they be so greatly bound and beholden to their God, they ought to serve him with the greater zeal. Moses then telleth the people thus: Ye have seen Gods wrath: and what hath preserved you from it hitherto? For ye might have been overthrown and destroyed as well as they that §10worshipped Beelphegor. Know ye therefore that your continuing unto this day, is through the free favour of your God. And therefore look that ye serve and honour him as he deserveth, seeing he hath maintained you after such a fashion, and against all hope. Now this warning belongeth unto us, because we live not to any other end than to serve our GOD, and woe be to them which being in this world do raven up Gods benefits, and know not to §20what end, but are here as brute beasts. So then let us mark well, that as long as we be in this world, God will have us to do him homage for our life, and [to understand] that we be bound to him [for all things,] and to make that our mark to shoot at, according to this sentence often spoken in the scripture,1 I shall live and go into the temple of the Lord. Yea & when Jonah was come out of the Whales belly, and even when he called upon GOD §30being there as in a gulf of hell: he said not I will live and make good cheer, but he sayeth that he shall yet again see the temple of God. And what to do? to give him thanks for prolonging his life after that sort. Therefore let us mark, that in all the benefits which we receive at Gods hand, he bindeth us so much the more strictly unto him, to the intent that we should endeavour to serve him, and to give our selves wholly unto him, and to walk in the obedience §40of his righteousness. This is it in effect which Moses meant to note.
And nowe hee sayeth expresly, You that haue clea•ed to your God are all aliue this day. This serueth not so much to make the people gladde: as to shewe them that seeing they bee so greatly bounde and beholden to their God, they ought to serue him with the greater zeale. Moses then telleth the people thus: Yee haue seene Gods wrath: and what hath preserued you from it hitherto? For yee might haue beene ouerthrowen and destroyed as well as they that