A17698:855
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 Wednesday the xix. of June. 1555. The xxxiij. Sermon which is the fourth upon the fifth Chapter.
On Wednesday the xix. of Iune. 1555. The xxxiij. Sermon which is the fourth vpon the fift Chapter.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord ⟨p. 194⟩will not hold him guiltless which taketh his name in vain.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine: for the Lorde ⟨p. 194⟩will not holde him guiltlesse which taketh his name in vaine.
IF we were well advised, we needed not to be taught to yield reverence to our God: for nature ought to lead us thereto. To what end are we created in this world? To what end live we here, but to honour him to whom we be beholden for all good things, and to give our selves to the glorifying of his majesty? That then is the end and whole sum of our life. But in the §10mean season, in stead of honouring our God, and of applying our selves that way: we seem to have conspired the clean contrary. For some of us would have all remembrance of God buried: some despise him and mock him: and othersome blaspheme him with open mouth: so as we show sufficiently, that we know not to what end we live or should live. Now forasmuch as there is this vice in us: God intending to redress the same, telleth us that we ought at leastwise