A17698:897
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.
But the world sees how all things are unhallowed, insomuch that most folk have no regard at all of the using of that day, which was ordained to withdraw us from all earthly cares and affairs, that we might give our selves wholly unto God.
But ye worlde sees how all thinges are vnhallowed, insomuch that most folke haue no regard at al of ye vsing of that day, which was ordayned to withdrawe vs from all earthly cares and affaires, that wee might giue our selues wholy vnto God.
Furthermore we must understand, that the Lord his day was not appointed all only to the hearing of Sermons: but to the end we should apply the rest of the time to the praising of God. Yea verily. For although he feed us every day: yet do we not mind his gracious benefits sufficiently to magnify them. In deed it were a poor thing if we minded not Gods benefits but upon the Lords day: But because we be occupied too much about our own affairs on the other days, therefore we be not so much given to serve God in them, as upon the day which is assigned wholly thereunto. The Lord his day then must serve us for a tower to mount up into, to view Gods works a far of, as a time wherein we have nothing to let us or to keep us occupied, but that we may employ all our wits to consider the benefits and gracious gifts that he hath bestowed upon us. And if we can put this thing well in ure (that is to say, if we can consider Gods works), upon the Lords day, surely we shall be the more given unto it all the rest of the week after, and the minding thereof will as it were fashion and polish us aforehand, so as our musing upon his works long afore to the intent we may know how to fare the better by them, will lead us to yield thanks unto our God upon the monday and all the week after. But if the Lords day be spent not only in games & pastimes full of vanity, but also in things quite contrary to God, so as men think they have not kept holy the Lord his day, except God be offended divers ways: if the holy order which God ordained to bring us to him, be broken after that fashion: is it any wonder though men play the beasts all the week after? What is to be done then? Let us assure our selves that it is not enough for us to go to some Sermon upon the Lords day, to receive some good instruction & to call upon the name of God: but we must also digest the same things, and bend all our wits to consider the gracious things that God hath done for us: and by that means we must frame our selves to the things that may lead us to our God, without further travel on the Monday or of all the week after. And to the intent we may not do aught else than record the things by good leisure, which we had learned afore: let our minds be discharged of all things that may hinder us, or pluck us back from the considering of Gods works.