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Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles
Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles wherein are handled the chiefest points of religion controversed and debated between us and the adversary at this day, especially touching the true Jesus Christ and the true Church, and the certain & infallible marks both of the one and of the other. Translated out of French into English by John Harmar ...Master Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles wherein are handled the chiefest points of religion controversed and debated betweene vs and the aduersarie at this day, especially touching the true Iesus Christ and the true Church, and the certaine & infallible marks both of the one and of the other. Translated out of French into English by Iohn Harmar ...
Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1587Oxford: printed by Ioseph Barnes, 1587
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4 Now in all sacraments there must necessarily be some convenience and correspondence betwixt the sign and the thing signified: for which cause under the new covenant the Lord minding to signify the spiritual washing of our sins and blots, took the sign of Water: and minding to show from whom we draw eternal life, chose bread and wine to signify it. The same must therefore be found in this sacrament of Perfume. Therefore we must note first of all, that as the receipt and composition of this Perfume proceeded from God and not from men: so the graces of which it is here spoken, are in the humanity of Jesus Christ, inasmuch as the son of God hath taken on him this humane nature of the substance of the virgin descended from David, and consequently from Adam, in whom this nature of man was deprived of the image of god and made the bondslave of sin, Rom. 7.14. but he is borne according to the flesh without any sin, with his graces, in as much as the corporal mass of his body was so taken from the substance issued from Adam, that notwithstanding it was ⟨p. 47⟩through the virtue of the holy Ghost, that the body of Christ was formed thereof, the power of the highest (that is to say the holy Ghost) having fully sanctified it, to be a most holy and sacred palace and perpetual dwelling place of his most holy soul, endowed above every other creature with all integrity & perfection: & especially that this humanity should become the true and perpetual temple of the person of the eternal and only son of God his father, from the time it was conceived in the womb of the Virgin, to the end that Jesus Christ might become true God and true man, man I say most righteous, and just, and the holy of holies.
4 Now in all sacraments there must necessarily bee some conuenience and correspondence betwixt the signe and the thing signified: for which cause vnder the newe couenant the Lorde minding to signifie the spirituall washing of our sinnes and blots, tooke the signe of Water: and minding to shewe from whom we drawe eternal life, chose bread and wine to signifie it. The same must therefore bee found in this sacrament of Perfume. Therefore wee must note first of all, that as the receit and composition of this Perfume proceeded from God and not from men: so the graces of which it is here spoken, are in the humanity of Iesus Christ, in asmuch as the sonne of God hath taken on him this humane nature of the substance of the virgin descended from Dauid, and consequently from Adam, in whom this nature of man was depriued of the image of god and made the bondslaue of sinne,