A17698:826
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.
On Monday the xvij. of June. 1555. The xxxij. Sermon, which is the third upon the fifth Chapter.
On Munday the xvij. of Iune. 1555. The xxxij. Sermon, which is the third vpon the fifth Chapter.
8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. 9 Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: 10 And showing mercy in a thousand generations, to them that love me and keep my commandments.
8 Thou shalt not make thee any grauen image nor the likenesse of anye thing that is in heauen aboue, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters vnder the earth. 9 Thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them. For I am the Lord thy God, a ielous God, visiting the sinnes of the fathers vppon the children, euen vpon the third and fourth generation of them that hate mee: 10 And shewing mercie in a thousand generations, to them that loue mee and keepe my commaundementes.
Forasmuch as men are so inclined to corrupt Gods service with wicked superstitions: God is fain to threaten them, that they may be held under as it were by force, or else their fondness would carry them away to surmise of God, contrary to that which may beseem his Majesty. And this is a very notable point, as I have touched heretofore. For in as much as the people