A17698:616
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.
Therefore if we wist it were such a vice, surely we would abhor idolatry, knowing that it turneth us quite away from God.1 And for the same cause doth the prophet Jeremiah say, that there is nothing but doctrine of falsehood in Idols:2 and the prophet Habakkuk verifying the same, & comparing idols with the living God, saith that they be a school of lies.
Therefore if we wist it were such a vice, surely we would abhorre idolatrie, knowing yt it turneth vs quite away from God.1 And for the same cause doth the prophet Ieremy say, that there is nothing but doctrine of falshood in Idols:2 and the prophet Abacuck verifying the same, & comparing idols with the liuing God, sayth that they be a schoole of lyes.
- 1Jer. •••Ier. •••
- 2Abac••
But yet for all this, the Papists will affirm that images are laymen's books: and that because all men cannot read nor are clerks, there must be some help for the ignorant. Very well: if a representation of God be made, that is a book, that is as good as the Bible, say the Papists: and it is their chief anchorhold that they flee to in this case. True it is that this shift is not of their own devising: it was devised by a man not wicked of himself, notwithstanding y he was somewhat attainted with the corruption of papistry. For he was a Pope himself, howbeit not when the Popedom was in such plight as it is nowadays: but yet when it had already bin greatly corrupted, and the world was sore degenerated. Now then, this good man Gregory thought it good to have images, and that they would be as books for the unlearned: & this have the papists received as if it were the oracle of some Angel from heaven. But contrariwise the Prophet