Sermons on Deuteronomy (continued)
On Friday, the second day of
August 1555 The 52nd Sermon which is the
second upon the seventh
Chapter
5. But thus shall you do to them. You shall beat down their altars, and break their pillars: you shall heave down their groves, and burn their Images with fire.
6. For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his peculiar people above all the nations of the earth.
7. The Lord has not set his love upon you, nor chosen you because you were more in number than all other nations, seeing you be the lease of all nations.
8. But for the love which the Lord bears you to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you forth with a strong hand, and delivered you from the house of bondage, even from the land of Pharaoh, King of Egypt.