A17698:780
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.
The fifth Chapter.
And Moses called all Israel and said unto them. Hear O Israel the ordinances and Laws which I set before you this day, that ye may learn them and keep them in deed. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord our God made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us which are all here alive at this day.
ANd Moses called all Israel and said vnto them. Heare O Israel the ordinances and Lawes which I set before you this day, that ye may learne them and keepe them in deede. 2 The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb. 3 The Lorde our God made not this couenant with our fathers, but with vs which are all here aliue at this day.
For as much as it is hard to keep men in subjection to GOD: therefore after he had §60chosen him a people, he vouchsafed to rule them, not for once and away, but even so long time till they ought to have bin well inured to his yoke. And after the same manner doeth he deal daily with his Church. One word ought to be enough to make us understand the trueth of our God. But forasmuch as we believe not so speedily as were requisite: & when we have begun, we start away again: and finally forget the things that he had taught us: therefore he thinketh it not enough to have told us once what is needful for our salvation, but he doeth also put us oft in mind of it, & printeth it in our hearts as much as is possible. That is the cause why Moses rehearseth in this ⟨p. 177⟩text, that he not only delivered them the law in Horeb, but also taught it them new again, after he had gone about with them a forty years or fast upon it, yea and ceased not of all that time to set the things continually before them which GOD had erst commanded him to utter unto them, as hath bin touched already heretofore. But the diligence of Moses is not superfluous in that he saith, that being come to the side of Jordan, and having vanquished Sehon king of the Amorites, and