A17698:642
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 §10finally they never forsake the world that so they may glorify God, & consider or feel how much they be bound & beholden to him. By this means then is Gods mercy defaced, & his grace slippeth away and is utterly abolished. Besides this, there is yet a greater enormity, namely that men go on still from evil to worse, until they be fallen into utter confusion. Now then for this cause it is the duty of such as have the bearing abroad of Gods word, to exhort their hearers continually §20to consider their sins and to search them throughly. And to what end? Not only to make them barely ashamed of them: but also to make them humble themselves before God, & to go forward continually in repentance, that so they may learn to mislike of their faults, & to glorify God when they wholly repair to him for refuge, by asking him forgiveness of the offences that they have committed. But what? There are very few that can a way with this order of teaching: for there is not §30so wicked a man, but he would be flattered. And the world seeth that as soon as a man speaketh, some gnash their teeth & seek nothing else but to bite him: and othersome though a man do but by the way glance at their faults which are too too far out of all square, fear not to check him, or to stand with him face to face in the maintenance thereof. But yet for all that, the rule which God hath appointed us, us I say which have the charge to bear abroad his word, is that we must §40daily labour in warning our hearers, to call themselves to account, and to examine well their own faults, that they may be sorry for them.
and §10finally they neuer forsake the world that so they may glorifie God, & consider or feele how much they be bound & beholdē to him. By this means thē is Gods mercie defaced, & his grace slippeth away and is vtterly abolished. Besides this, there is yet a greater enormitie, namely that men goe on still from euil to worse, vntil they be falne into vtter confusion. Now then for this cause it is the duetie of such as haue the bearing abrode of Gods word, to exhort their hearers continually §20to consider their sins and to search thē throughly. And to what end? Not only to make them barely ashamed of them: but also to make them hūble themselues before God, & to goe forward continually in repentāce, yt so they may learne to mislike of their faults, & to glorifie God when they wholly repaire to him for refuge, by asking him forgiuenes of the offences that they haue committed. But what? There are very few that can a way with this order of teaching: for there is not