A17698:61
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 Have told you already, that the doctrine which is contained here, is not the beginning of a matter, as though it had bin new to the people, and that God had not taught it them before: but a confirmation of the things that Moses had spoken in Horeb, because the people had not profited so well by them as they ought to have done. And it hath bin declared further, that God had §10spent the space of forty years or thereabouts in subduing that people, which had bin overstubborne even at the very first, & could in no wise abide to take his yoke. For this cause is the time set out here, to the end that we might understand, that the people ought to have framed themselves to some obedience, after so hard & so long a chastisement as thy had endured. Besides this, there is one other circumstance: which is, that the people had already had some victory against §20Og king of Bashan and his neighbours, wherein they had had experience of Gods favour. And I told you that those things were worthy to be marked, because they be the two means whereby God draweth men unto him, to win them withal and to enjoy them. On the one side he chastiseth them, to the end they may learn to obey him as being under his hand & authority: and on the other side he useth gentleness, to make men in love with him, and to consider that nothing is §30better for them, than to stick to him at whose hand they look for all welfare. And both of these are expressed here by Moses: namely that the people had lingered in the desert forty years long, feeling Gods horrible punishment for their shrinking away from him: & yet nevertheless, had overcome Sehon & Og & such like kings, howbeit not by their own power, but by Gods help.
I Haue tolde you alreadie, that the doctrine which is conteined here, is not the beginning of a matter, as though it had bin new to the people, and that God had not taught it them before: but a confirmation of the things that Moses had spoken in Horeb, bicause the people had not profited so well by them as they ought to haue done. And it hath bin declared further, that God had §10spent the space of fortie yeeres or thereaboutes in subduing yt people, which had bin ouerstubborne euen at the very first, & could in no wise abide to take his yoke. For this cause is the time set out here, to the ende that wee might vnderstand, yt the people ought to haue framed themselues to some obedience, after so hard & so long a chastisement as thy had endured. Besides this, there is one other circumstance: which is, that ye people had alreadie had some victorie against