A17698:734
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.
Now therefore consider how much you be bound to your God, and §20be not unthankful to him, neither suffer such a benefit to slip from you, so as ye should be bereft thereof through your own lewdness and unthankfulness. This in effect is the doctrine that is contained in this place.
Now therefore consider how much you be bound to your God, and §20bee not vnthankfull to him, neither suffer such a benefite to slip from you, so as yee should be bereft thereof through your owne lewdnes and vnthankfulnes. This in effect is the doctrine that is conteined in this place.
Now, that we may fare the better by it, we have to mark first of all, that when God calleth us to be of his Church, so as he maketh us partakers of the Gospel, and of the things depending upon the same: it is not for that we went to him aforehand,§30 but because he hath chosen us. The word Chose is set down here to express the better that that thing came not of the people themselves, but that God was the first beginner thereof. That is one point which we ought to mark well. For it is not only here that the holy Ghost speaketh thereof: but all the whole scripture is full of that doctrine: namely, of telling us that we must not seek the cause of our salvation in our selves, as who should say we were better than other §40men.1 We see that God giveth not his graces indifferently to all men: but that to set the greater show upon his goodness, he giveth that thing to one man which he denieth to another. We see that most men are destitute of the Gospel at this day: and we see that even where it is preached, most folk are as good as blind and deaf still. Now when the Gospel is preached in any place, it is a kind of choosing, and it is the very same that Moses