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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.
Was not God in the middest of his people?1 For he said, I will dwell in the middest of you.2 And again, Behold my rest: Zion is the place of my habitation. And again, he protesteth, that he will never depart thence, that the people is his temple, that they are his royal priesthood. Why then is it that the Prophet Isaiah sayeth, Behold him, behold him, saith our God: This is he, this is he, when our Lord Jesus should come into the world? This is, because God revealeth him self unto us in greater perfection. There remaineth therefore less excuse for us, if we at this day wander, and hold not our selves to the pure trueth, but that every one turn after his dreams, to say, It seemeth me so, behold what I find to be good. Know we, that all this is nothing, & that we must return to that certainty of trueth which hath been brought unto us by our Lord Jesus Christ. But the world is so far from knowing of this, that it seemeth all have desired to despite and anger GOD, that they have devised how to turn their back unto him, that they have laboured to reject and lay aside all subjection, that they might have leave to remain in their enormities and vurulie demeanours, and that their wickedness in the mean time might not be perceived. The Jews are unexcusable, as we see how the Prophets reproach them, that they have wittingly abandoned and put away GOD, and that they can not excuse them selves, as the wretched Paynims, saying, That they have heard nothing: for GOD protesteth, that he hath not spoken in vain. But now at this day, when GOD speaketh unto us with full mouth, and that we have so perfect a revelation in his Gospel, is not this an over great wickedness, that men yet wander and go so astray? Were there ever more foolish and fond superstitions, or more outrageous and enormous than those which are at this day to be seen in Popery? I grant, the Jews mingled them selves among the superstitions of the Paynims, that they defiled them selves over much with their filths ⟨image 130⟩and pollutions: but when all shall be well sifted and examined, we shall find that the Papists have surmounted and exceeded them herein by many degrees: for the word of God at this day is as it were buried among them.
Was not God in the middest of his people?