Being allowed continuance should give us zeal
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. [Deut 4:4]
This serveth not so much to make the people glad; as to shew them that seeing they be so greatly bound and beholden to their God, they ought to serve him with greater zeal. Moses then telleth the people thus: Ye have seen God’s wrath; and what hath preserved you from it hitherto? For ye might have been overthrown and destroyed as well as they that worhsipped Beelphegor. Know ye therefore that you continuing unto this day, is through the free favour of God. And therfore look that ye serve and honour him as he deserveth, seeing he hath maintained you after such a fashion, and against all hope. [John Calvin]
Sermons on Deuteronomy (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century Facsimile Editions)



















