Sermons on Deuteronomy (continued)
On Wednesday, the 28th of
August 1555 The 63rd sermon, which is the second upon ninth Chapter
6. Know you therefore & c.
7. Remember and forget not that you did anger the Lord your God in the wilderness. Even from the day that you came out of the land of Egypt, unto the time that you came to this place, you have rebelled against the Lord.
We have seen already yesterday, how Moses warned the people that they should not boast of themselves when they were come into the Land of promise: and how he told them that they had not obtained that benefit for their own deserts, but through Gods mere grace and goodness. We have seen the three reasons that he alleged for the same. Albeit for as much as it is hard to bring men to humility, so as they may know themselves as they be indeed, and be utterly ashamed of themselves, not attributing anything to their own power, but depending altogether upon Gods free mercy: Moses adds a plain demonstration and says: if you allege your own worthiness and deserts: You be stiff-necked people, even such a one as can not bow