A17698:954
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 first of July. 1555. The xxxvij Sermon which is the eight upon the fifth Chapter.
On Munday the first of Iuly. 1555. The xxxvij Sermon which is the eight vpon the fift Chapter.
17 Thou shalt not be a murderer.
17 Thou shalt not be a murtherer.
WE have seen already, how that to live well with men, we must obey our superiors. For it is the first thing that God commandeth us in the second table of his law: because the mean in descending from him to men, is to honour those whom he hath set over us. In deed when we speak of men, there is some equal fellowship: for we come all of Adams race: we §40be all of one kind:1 and all this importeth an equality among men. Nevertheless forasmuch as it hath pleased God to set certain degrees: we must hold us thereunto, and keep that order, so as the party which hath any preeminence and dignity, may be acknowledged for such a one as is to be honoured. And in this case we must not allege, why is he more esteemed than I? For that cometh not of any worthiness that is in one more than in another: but of Gods §50will, who will have them so honoured to whom he hath given any preeminence. And it is not enough for the children to honour their parents by yielding them some reverence: but they must also succour them, and spend themselves to the uttermost for them,2 accordingly as our Lord Jesus Christ showeth how it is but hypocrisy, when children do but make some countenance of honouring their fathers and mothers, and in the mean while let them alone in their