A17698:690
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.
yea and that he will prevent us, so as we need not distrust him that he will not receive us to mercy, seeing we have such a warrant.
yea and that he will preuent vs, so as wee neede not distrust him that hee will not receiue vs to mercy, seeing we haue such a warrant.
Howbeit forasmuch as men would always pacify God with countenances and ceremonies: Moses addeth purposely, that we must seek him with heart and with soul. I said that men are ever desirous to content God with trifling things: and we see it too much. For when they speak of repentance or penance in popery: what mean they by that word, but that men must use much liplabour, and make a sort of Apes toys? But the heart must abide still locked up, and men must in no wise rid themselves of their wicked affections, nor cleanse them away. They will always keep a back shop behind, and in the mean season if they show some good outward sign, they think it is enough, and that God ought not to press them any further. They be double hearted: and therefore they would have God to receive but the one half of that which he requireth: and the other half they would pay him as it were in way of ransom. But as for us, let us on our side learn to understand, that to find him, and to be received of him, we must seek him with all our heart, and with all our soul. Not that we can come unto him with such perfection as were to be wished: but yet must we have this soundness with us, that we seek no lurking holes, but rather examine our sins throughly, and when we have condemned them, seek the remedy with sighing and groaning, that it may please our God to reclaim us to him, so as we condemning our own sins, may desire nothing so much as to be reformed according to his righteousness. Thus ye see what it is to seek God with all our heart and with all our soul. And when we go so to work, let us not think that we shall be disappointed of the promise which he made to the fathers of old time. And so ye see that the thing which we have to mark upon this place is that forasmuch as we come not to God of our own good will, we are fain to be driven to it by force, and that is the cause of the afflictions that God sendeth us.