A17698:980
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.
First (as I said afore) let us understand that God will have wedlock to be kept holy. For as our persons & lives are deer unto him: so will he have that faith and troth that is plighted between man & wife, to be maintained in their price and estimation, that so holy a thing as marriage, be not given up to shame & reproach. This ought to bring to pass, that no man should look upon his §50neighbours wise with unchaste eye. And why? For God hath matched her to a husband already, & he will have her husband to shadow her.1 And when we think any evil, or feel any unhonest lust: he will have us to shun it for fear of that which is told us, namely that God himself taketh vengeance of them that break the holy fellowship which was knit in his name.2 In like case is it with women in respect of their husbands: so as a wife may not yield to wicked lusts when §60she beholdeth a married man. Why so? For God hath assigned her, her make. If we will not make war against our maker, we must live every one in his own house, with such match as he hath: & that order must be maintained without breach, because god is yt author of it. That is one principal point.
First (as I sayd afore) let vs vnderstand yt God will haue wedlocke to be kept holy. For as our persons & liues are deere vnto him: so will hee haue yt faith and troth that is plighted betweene man & wife, to be mainteined in their price and estimation, that so holy a thing as mariage, be not giuen vp to shame & reproch. This ought to bring to passe, that no man should looke vpon his §50neighbors wise with vnchaste eye. And why? For God hath matched her to a husband already, & he wil haue her husband to shadow her.1 And whē we thinke any euill, or feele any vnhonest lust: he will haue vs to shun it for feare of that which is tolde vs, namely that God himselfe taketh vengeance of them that breake the holy fellowship which was knit in his name.2