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A17698	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.; Sermons de M. Jehan Calvin sur les dix commandemens de la loy. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Ragueneau, Denys.	1583 (1583)	STC 4442; ESTC S107166	2,969,750	1,370

Lorde certifyeth vs of our saluation when he giueth vs his word wee must vnderstande that he will not suffer vs to stray as though wee knewe not whether wee shoulde turne on the right hand or on the left but that hee doth giue vs an infallible direction Seeing then that hee vouchsafeth to doe the office of a schoolemaster towardes vs let vs indeuour to profite thereby and let vs behaue our selues like good scholers towardes him and let none of vs in this case alleage I am no clarke For God hath not spoken to the greate doctours onely but his will was to deale foorth his worde in common both to great and small and to the most ignorant and hee hath so tempered it to their capacities as that all they which come to yeeld themselues teachable shall very well perceiue that our Lorde knew well what is meete for them and they shal be taught after such sort as he knoweth to be most conuenient for them Now if this be verified of the lawe much more reason is it that it shoulde at this day take effect in the time of the Gospel For we heare how it is saide by the Prophet Esay that in the kingdom of our Lorde Iesus Christ all shal bee taught of God 〈◊〉 54.13 〈◊〉 6.46 Marke the prophet Esay who knewe very well that God had giuen his law to al the Iewes and that it was a good and profitable instruction as well for the litle children as for the Elders But yet for as much as hee knewe wel that God would vtter foorth his grace more largely and sende a newe manner of light of vnderstanding when as Iesus Christ shoulde bee manifested vnto the world hee sayth that then all the children of the church should be taught of God And we see that in the Popedome where they turne away the people from reading the holy Scripture It is a wicked blasphemie when men suffer themselues to bee so blynded and vouchsafe not to suffer thēselues to be lead nor taught at Gods hands yea they haue proceeded to so diuelish blasphemie as to accuse the holy Scripture of too much darknes as a thing of too great depth wherein men ought not to be instructed for feare lest they should forthwith be possessed with many errors When they talk on that wise the iniurie tendeth to y e liuing God for they accuse him of vntrueth notwithstanding the protestation that he maketh by his Prophet Esaye Yea wee see howe all the whole Scripture is full of the like testimonies whereby it is auowed that the holy Scripture is profitable There needed no more but this one place of S. Paul where hee sayeth 〈◊〉 3.16 ● That all scripture is profitable to instruct to exhort to disprooue and to rebuke Hee sayeth not that it is profitable for three or foure rables of scuruie Monkes or shauelinges hee sayeth not so but he sayeth that it is profitable to make the man of God perfect And therefore let vs not dout but that when our Lorde deliuered his lawe hee knewe our capacitie and applyed himselfe in such wise therunto as hee teacheth vs according to our measure In so much that if wee bee teachable wee shall fynde that his doctrine was not deliuered vs in vayne but that hee meaneth to guyde vs thereby vnto saluation as it is in deede the true meane to attayne thereunto onely let vs suffer our selues to bee gouerned of our GOD and not behaue our selues stubbornely towardes him seeing hee offereth himselfe so freely vnto vs. And surely it ought to mooue vs very much when hee sayeth that God will haue all yea euen the litle children and all to bee hearers of this lawe For he telleth vs as Salomon also sayeth in his booke of the Preacher that men must not delaye to thinke vppon GOD 〈◊〉 12.1 till they beginne to droope and bee broken with age Yet notwithstanding wee see howe youth runneth astray and that there is nothing harder than to make young folke beleeue that they must be bridled in that they must imploy them selues whilest they be strong and lustie and that they must so much the more apply their wittes to be instructed in the word of God A man can not bring this to passe but the stronger lustier they be the more carelesse be they Now Moses sheweth in this place that as soone as the litle ones begin to discerne betweene good and euill they must learne to knowe what God created them and then what God hath shewed him selfe to be their father what God they ought to serue wherein they must put their trust And in very deede at the verie same time God did alreadie at y e eighth day giue a marke of his free adoption for before they knew either good or euil God enterteined them to be of his flock and the circumcision serued to seale the promise of saluation which he had made in saying I wil bee the GOD of thy seede Gen. 17.12 Seeing that children be thus entertained and God hath made it manifest that they bee of his church housholde people of the kingdome of heauen is it meete that when they be come to the age of vnderstanding they shoulde holde scorne of him which hath preuented them with so great goodnes Ought they not to know who is their creator and in likewise who hee is that hath vouchsafed to shewe himselfe to bee their father when as hee hath receyued them for his children And wee at this day haue so good reason as the Iewes had For as soone as our children be born they be caried to baptisme And there God doth shewe that hee hath already chosen them and that his will is that they should bee as of his housholde Therefore when an infant is thus declared to bee a member of our Lorde Iesus Christ before he doth vnderstand what y e grace of God or religion or any thing else is should he not when he commeth to age of vnderstanding indeuour to learne y t he was created of God who hauing created him after his owne image hath vouchsafed also to choose him to be of the number and company of his people and hath placed him in the body of our Lord Iesus Christ to the end he should be partaker of the inheritance of saluation Considering so many and so inestimable benefites receiued at Gods hand ought he not say I to giue himselfe wholie to him and to his seruice And if they doe it not doe they not shewe themselues too much vnthankfull in disappoynting the grace which was then giuen vnto them Also our Lord sheweth the zeale that ought to bee in them which bee taught by his word namely that so much as in them lyeth they must not suffer any despisers of religion to dwell amongest them but rather take paines to winne the poore ignoraunt sort and euery man reache his hand to him that goeth astray so as it may not bee long of vs that all

too too vnkind lewdely disposed Therefore let vs learne that in this case God stoopeth to vs as if he were a mortall man Yet is not that any derogation to his maiestie but rather a recorde of his infinite goodnesse in that he vseth not his right with rigor but forbeareth it and applyeth himselfe after that fashion vnto vs to doe the thinges which hee knoweth to be meete for our rudenesse And therefore whensoeuer wee heare that God promiseth to prosper vs if wee honor and serue him Let vs vnderstand y t his so dooing is of free goodnesse to win vs the better because he is loth to vse rigor towardes vs as he might doe But yet for all this we must not imagin that he is bound to yeelde vs any recompence or reward for our seruice For it is not for vs to enter into account in this behalfe as though wee could win any thing by it but wee must receiue whatsoeuer hee offereth vs as of his free gift knowing our selues to bee so much the more bound vnto him Moreouer let vs marke what hath bin tolde vs heretofore namely that the land which Moses promiseth here vnto the people Gene. 13.14 had bin promised already foure hundred yeeres afore whē none of them all was yet borne therfore God had not an eye to anie of their deseruinges But now he saith that they should inioy the promise which God had made them of his owne mere goodnesse And so we haue to gather in effect that all y t euer we receyue at Gods hand springeth out of none other fountaine than onely his meere mercie because he is good because hee hath pitie vpon vs because he hath not any respect to our worthinesse but onely to himselfe because it pleaseth him to be so boūtiful towards vs. Marke y t for a speciall poynt But yet for all y t if we will well inioy his benefites if we will haue them auaileable to our saluatiō if we wil haue the continual possession of them we on our side must looke to answere to y e grace y t God sheweth vs. And how shall we answere it Verily not by shrinking away frō him nor by refusing y e things y t he offereth vs to drawe vs to him but by knowing the right lawful vse of the benefites which he bestoweth vpō vs so as we loue him gloryfy him for them euery of vs spend himselfe in his seruice Therefore whēsoeuer our Lord shall haue done vs any good let vs vnderstand y t the same cōmeth not for aught on our behalf but rather y t we be so much y e more beholdē vnto him And to y e end we may possesse inioy the same benefites y t they may profite vs to our soules health let vs be well aduised therewithall y t wee be y e more prouoked thereby to serue God forasmuch as he sheweth himself so liberal towards vs. That is the thing in effect which we haue to gather vpon that text Now Moses addeth that the people must bethink them of all the iourney whereby the Lord their God led them This bethinking of themselues was very needefull And if we were wise well aduised we would bethink vs better than we doe of y e things which our Lorde sheweth vs throughout all our lyfe For both the aduersities also the prosperities which he sendeth vs are instructiōs which we ought to marke well this present lyfe is as a schoole wherein we ought to cal to minde that lesson both euening morning But what Although God doe the office of a good schoolemaister neuer leaue teaching of vs yet there is none of vs that taketh heede of it but y e time is lost we be lyke children that are hardened or become trueandes so as doe y e maister what he can the childe doth but laugh him to skorne he giues not his minde at all to learning but his wittes are wandering abroad either he giueth himself to follie lewdnesse or else runnes loytering vp downe the streetes when hee should haue his boke in his hād At y e same point are we For we haue y e boke opē before vs as lōg as we bee in this world God teacheth vs by all maner of meanes to loue him to feare him and to put our trust in him and to submit our selues to his good will If he send vs blessings it is to this end that wee should learne to giue our selues wholy ouer vnto him If he afflict vs it is to waken vs that we should liue in his feare If he send vs any neede or hold vs in any distresse it is as a quickening of vs vp to call vpon him to flee to him for refuge If he giue vs any taste of his fauor it is to the end we should be the better confirmed not onely that he will helpe vs during this mortall lyfe but also that hee will bring vs to the kingdome of heauen and thereof must wee be fully resolued Thus ye see how God neuer ceaseth to rehearse our lesson to vs and yet doth none of vs giue heede to it but we wander away in our owne imaginations the pleasures of this world doe cary vs away and euery of vs is so combered wih these vanities that wee haue no leasure at all to thinke vppon our God or vpon the thinges that he sheweth vs. Yet notwithstanding it is not for naught that Moses sayth here Bethinke thee of the way wherethrough the Lorde thy God hath led thee True it is that the people of Israell had peculiar instructions so as a number of thinges befell them in their trauelling through the wildernesse which belong not vnto vs in these dayes but yet was that a figure of mans lyfe The wildernesse say I wherein the people were by the space of fortie yeeres was as a mirrour of this earthly wayfaring of ours wherethrough wee must passe vntill GOD take vs hence into his rest Lykewise the resting place of the land of Chanaan accordingly as it is named in the fourescore and fifteenth psalme was as a warrant of the endlesse lyfe that is prepared for vs Psal. 95.11 and wherein wee shall no more bee tossed and turmoyled as we be in this world Now seeing it is so Let vs note that as the Iewes were exhorted to remember the iourney wherein God had led them through the wildernesse so now the chiefe poynt of our duetie is to cōsider that inasmuch as God gouerneth vs we liue through his fatherly care so as he guideth all our steppes which we haue to goe or come And it behoueth vs to bethinke vs well of all the time of our lyfe to consider throwly what we haue had experience of in this world True it is that we thinke oftentimes both vppon the good and vppon the euill which we haue receiued but that is cleane contrary to the intent of our God For our thinking