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Sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the.X.Commandments of the Law, given of GodSermons of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the.X.Commandementes of the Lawe, geuen of God
Sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the.X.Commandments of the Law, given of God by Moses, otherwise called the Decalogue. Gathered word for word, presently at his sermons, when he preached on Deuteronomy, without adding unto, or diminishing from them any thing afterward. Translated out of French into English, by I.H.Sermons of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the.X.Commandementes of the Lawe, geuen of God by Moses, otherwise called the Decalogue. Gathered word for word, presently at his sermons, when he preached on Deuteronomie, without adding vnto, or diminishing from them any thing afterward. Translated out of Frenche into English, by I.H.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison, 1579London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison, 1579
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.
The. 10. Sermon.
Deut. Chap. 5. 19. Thou shalt not steal.
Deut. Chap. 5. 19. Thou shalt not steale.
IF we well understood but in one word the will of God, which he plainly enough declareth unto us, we should not need to study much for the right knowledge of ordering our selves, and of leading an holy and righteous life. But no such ignorant person, as he who will not understand: none so deaf, as he which will not hear (as we say in common proverb.) And this is the cause why we are so blind, albeit our Lord Jesus Christ hath shined before us with his brightness, and hath made us privy of his will and meaning, as well in this precept of the law, as in all the rest we have above handled: for if every one would enter into his own conscience, to make a just and true examination of his faults, should he not find that it is easy to judge, that when we do our neighbour any wrong, when we deceive him in his goods, what coverture soever and cloak we have for it, that we be culpable of theft before God? But what? If so be we may hide our shame before the world, it sufficeth us: and the judgement of God in the mean time is trodden under foot, and we care not for it: but yet all these fig leaves, with the which we cover our selves, shall serve us to no purpose, we must in the end come to our account before the heavenly Judge, and then shall we find, that it is not spoken in vain which he hath pronounced by Zechariah,1 That his malediction and curse shall come upon him which sweareth, and upon him which stealeth, that is, that in what matter soever of the law, and in what point soever we shall have offended, he shall not fail to take vengeance thereon. Men therefore may well justify them selves, or flatter them selves: yet God in the end shall display and show forth his indignation, both against swearers, and against thieves. But the better to understand the will of the Lord, let us know, that he hath used this