A17698:584
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 Declared yesterday after what manner we must come together in the name of God, to appear before him. For the meeting of the wicked is to make confederacies, and it is apparent that their seeking is but only to conspire against God and all goodness: but yet their meeting is by hiding themselves from Gods presence, & they would fain turn their backs upon him, so as §10he should not see them. Truly they do but loose their time: for all things must needs come to account before God. And if mortal men espy their wicked practises, so as they perceive that their banding of themselves is but to overthrow all order: the same must needs be known to the heavenly judge,1 from whom nothing is hidden. If their lewdness appear even to little children: think they that God hath his eyes stopped? But it behoveth us on our side to §20present our selves before God in all our meetings, to the intent that he may sit among us, & we be taught as it were by his mouth and governed by his hand. Furthermore forasmuch as we see that the wicked seek altogether to rend a sunder the union of the Church: let us endeavour so much the more to come together in Gods name. For we can not prove our selves to be his children, if we have not the mark whereof Moses speaketh here. And thereby it may be §30judged, that such as pass not to haunt the companies of Christians, when they meet together in the name of God to hear his word and to pray unto him: are but as dogs, and deserve not to be reckoned in the common array of men, but are to be abhorred as dung and filth, because they have cut off themselves from Gods house. Thus ye see what we have to remember concerning that text.
I Declared yesterday after what maner wee must come together in the name of God, to appeare before him. For the meeting of the wicked is to make confederacies, and it is apparant that their seeking is but only to conspire against God and all goodnesse: but yet their meeting is by hiding themselues from Gods presence, & they would faine turne their backes vppon him, so as §10he shoulde not see them. Truely they doe but loose their time: for all things must needs come to account before God. And if mortall men espie their wicked practises, so as they perceiue that their banding of themselues is but to ouerthrowe all order: the same must needes bee knowen to the heauenly iudge,