A17698:654
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.
For although they were unexcusable: yet had they not any such teaching as you. But as for you, ye have had Gods covenant, whereby ye were brought into his house: he hath showed himself as a father towards you, & taught you as his children: this is that holy band whereby god hath tied him self to you: now then if you should turn back again, and become like those wretched beasts §20which never knew nor tasted of gods truth, what a thing were it? Might you pretend them for a shrouding sheet and say, other men do so as well as we? Yea, but yet had not those other men such teaching as you have had. Now therefore acknowledge the grace that God hath bestowed upon you, in shoaling you out from all nations of the earth, & in coming so nigh unto you. And in deed the same is the very cause why that when the heathen are condemned in their superstitions:§30 it is said on the contrary part, that the Lord dwelleth in Zion, & his majesty is known there. After that manner doth the Prophet Habakkuk speak in his second chapter:1 and it is a doctrine that is rife enough every where. As if it were said, The world runs at random, and every man forgeth and setteth up some God privately to himself: but as for the God which hath showed himself to be the true living God: his voice soundeth in mount Zion where the temple was builded. Then §40sith it is so: although the whole world be carried away & go wandering in the dark: yet must not we be removed, forasmuch as he hath set up his seat among us, and we know him by his voice & by his word. And here we see why it is said in the Psalms where Gods kingdom is spoken of in such wise as it was to be stablished in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ,2 as well in the fourscore and sixteenth psalm as in other psalms: The Lord reigneth, Let the far countries rejoice thereat,§50 let all idols be confounded, and let all that is set up by men be thrown down. For when we have the truth, which driveth away all darkness & ignorance, then have we the very mean to destroy all superstition. And to the same purpose also is there this like saying in Isaiah:3