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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.
Seeing then that I am your GOD: hold your selves henceforth to me, or else ye shall be ⟨p. 185⟩less excusable than the Heathen. Your punishment must needs be double, yea and a hundred fold grievouser than theirs, because ye shall have falsified your faith which ye have plighted unto me, and broken the Covenant that I have made with you.
Seeing then that I am your GOD: holde your selues henceforth to mee, or else ye shalbe ⟨p. 185⟩lesse excusable than the Heathen. Your punishment must needes be dubble, yea and a hundred fold grieuouser than theirs, bicause ye shall haue falsified your faith which ye haue plighted vnto me, and broken the Couenant that I haue made with you.
He allegeth yet furthermore the favour that he had showed to the people, saying That he had brought them out of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Whereby he meaneth that he hath bound the §10people in such wise unto him, as they can not start away, but they must deserve to be still punished. For inasmuch as they shall have forgotten their deliverance: their unthankfulness shall be double. Seeing they had been redeemed by the hand of God: it behoved them to give over themselves wholly to the service of him that was their Redeemer. And he termeth Egypt the house of bondage purposely, to make the people consider throughly in what plight they §20had been there. For we see that they which sighed and cried out when they were oppressed with such violence and tyranny as we read of in Exodus:1 desired to return thither again as soon as God had delivered them. And whereof came that, but that they remembered not their oppression any more, and the devil stopped their eyes, that Gods grace might not be esteemed among them as it deserved? That is the cause why Moses termeth Egypt the house of bondage. In