A17698:748
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.
but before we were borne, and before we had done either good or bad, yea §60eve• at such time as we were already vowed and given up to endless destruction.1 This is it which we have to note in the first place.
but before wee were borne, and before wee had done either good or badde, yea §60eue• at such time as wee were alreadie vowed and giuen vp to endelesse destruction.1 This is it which we haue to note in the first place.
- 1•om. 9.11. •ph. 2.5.
Nevertheless it is not for nought that Moses sayeth also, that God brought out the people before his face: as if he should say, he was their guide. For had GOD reached out his hand to his people but for once, and thenceforth have let them alone: to what purpose had that been? It is not enough for a mother to help up her young child when he is fallen down: for he may fall a hundred thousand times, and in the end break his neck: but she must hold him up still. Even so our Lord declareth that it was not enough for him to have showed himself to be a deliverer of his people for a day or two: but he held on still, and conveyed them before his face, as a man that hath his eye continually upon his child. To be short, he showeth here that his goodness abode with the people even to the end, so as he held on in helping and succouring them, and maintained them throughout. And why? for else his bringing of them out of the land of Egypt had been in vain.