A17698:750
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 afterward he addeth, To destroy people mightier and stronger than they, that their land might be given them to inherit. He showeth that God ceased not to go through with his favour towards the Jews, till he had performed the promise that he made to their fathers: that is to wit, of putting them in possession of the land of Canaan as he had promised. But (as I have said already) we must compare our selves with the state of that people. And therefore let us learn, that God not only draweth us out of the gulf of hell, and out of the cursedness wherein we were borne, and which would hold us always locked under his wrath: but also holdeth on and continueth his goodness towards us, so as he will not miss but have his eye still upon us, to watch over us unto the end. And if our Lord had not such a care to defend us: in what taking were we? Should not the devil snatch us up every minute of an hour? We see he trotteth up and down seeking ever to devour,1 and he hath means to do it. And could we scape his paws if we were not defended from them by the goodness of our God? So then let us understand, that God doth not only begin our salvation, and then let us alone to shift for our selves: but that he goeth through with us as long as we have need, and performeth the thing that he hath begun. Thus doth he keep us always in his sight: that is to say, he never forgetteth us, but considereth our necessities, to provide for them and to remedy them in due season. Now if God have his eyes so open to think upon us, that he may succour us at our need: Let us on our side also walk as before his face.2 And let us mark that we cannot hide our selves from him: and therefore seeing he yieldeth us such favour and honour as to have a care of us: it is good reason that all our life should be answerable thereunto. And so, Gods goodness ought so little to make us negligent, that it should rather spur us forward to repair to him with an earnester mind. In deed a man shall see some dogs and swine that will defame this doctrine of Election. When it is told them that God knoweth which are his, and that he will never suffer them to perish: very well (say they), then will I ⟨p. 168⟩[…] ⟨p. 169⟩