Sermons on Deuteronomy
On Monday the 12th of August
1555 The 55th Sermon, which is the fifth upon the seventh Chapter
16. You shall consume all the nations which the Lord your God gives you. Thin eye shall not pardon them: neither shall you serve their Gods: for that will be your decay.
17. If you say in thin heart these nations are more in number than I how may drive them out?
18. Be not afraid of them: but remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh, and to all the Egyptians.
19. That is to know, the great trials which thin eyes have seen, and the signs and wonders, and the strong hand and stretched out arm, wherewith the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the nations of whose face you are afraid.
For as much as we be exhorted to become like God and gentleness and mildness, and that he will have his children known thereby in this world: it should seem that the thing which Moses says here, is not agreeable thereto. For even the heathen could well skill to say,