A17698:629
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.
19.20 Also that when thou liftest up, &c. 21 And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and sware that I should not pass over Jordan, nor go into the good land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit. 22 For I shall die in this land, without passing over Jordan: but you shall pass it, and possess that good Land. 23 Beware that ye forget not the Covenant of the Lord your God which he hath made with you: and that ye make ye not any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing which the Lord your God hath forbidden you. 24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire and a jealous God.
19.20 Also that when thou liftest vp, &c. 21 And the Lorde was angrie with mee for your woordes, and sware that I should not passe ouer Iordan, nor goe into the good land which the Lord thy God giueth thee to inherit. 22 For I shall die in this land, without passing ouer Iordan: but you shall passe it, and possesse that good Land. 23 Beware that ye forget not the Couenant of the Lorde your God which he hath made with you: and that ye make ye not any grauen image, nor the likenesse of any thing which the Lord your God hath forbidden you. 24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire and a ielous God.
Yesterday I began to show mens unthankfulness, in that they cannot find in their hearts to profit themselves by the benefits that God putteth into their hands, as this present example showeth sufficiently. Behold, God hath ordained the stars of the sky to do us service. There ought we to espy his infinite goodness towards us, how greatly he loveth and esteemeth §10us, in that he hath made so noble creatures our servants. But in stead of magnifying our God, and of worshipping him as we ought to do, we clean contrariwise fall to devising of some error and idolatry in our heads. After which manner the Gentiles took occasion to worship the Sun and the Moon, because they saw the great benefits that were received by them. Yea, but therewithal they should have mounted up higher, and have considered that God §20is the author of them, and that the Sun and Moon and the Stars are but instruments of Gods fatherly love towards us, and have not any power which proceedeth not from him. Furthermore let us mark that men sin not in this behalf through simple ignorance, but through wilfulness, because they can not find in their hearts to yield themselves to God with a single mind. For if we intend to serve the living God, we must not go to it by windlasses, but we