Sermons on Deuteronomy (continued)
On Saturday the third of August,
1555 The 53rd Sermon, which is the third upon the seventh Chapter
7. and 8. The Lord & c.
9. Know you therefore that the Lord your God is the God, [even] the faithful God which keeps covenant and mercy with a thousand generations, to such as love him and keep his commandments.
10. And yield payment to such as hate him before his face, to make them perish. And he will not for slow to recompense him that hates him [even] to his face.
We saw yesterday, that the cause why Moses says here expressly, that God chose one certain people, and made not that grace common to all the world: was to humble those to whom God uttered himself, to the end they should know that it befell them not for their deserts, nor through their own purchase: but through the only goodness of God. and that is the cause also why David speaking of this people, says, the son of Abraham, Gods beloved, the seed of Jacob his chosen.
Those two words are matched together, to show that the people was