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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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5 Secondly as the mixtures of the divine receipt of this legal perfume were earthly creatures of themselves, so by these gifts and graces, of which the humanity is the subject, and whereof the spouse speaketh in this place, we must understand not that which is essential in the divinity of Jesus Christ, in which thing the Eutychians abuse and deceive themselves, but the qualities created by this divinity in the humanity of Jesus Christ, of whom we which are his members could not otherwise draw them by any manner of participation, Ephes. 2.21. These things are very high I confess and surpass all natural knowledge: Ephes. 5.32. but having heard God spoken of so long in this Church, we should and ought to have our senses used & practised in them, Heb. 5.14. When we say therefore that God is wise, righteous, good, we speak according unto the capacity and conceit of our understanding: but to speak more properly, and to come more nearer his nature, we must say that he is wisdom, righteousness, goodness it self, yea essentially, that is to say, considered in his own essence and being, and not that he is so or so affected, to be such or such, as it is said of the creatures. But by these perfumes we will understand the effects and operations, of these perfections of the divinity, poured upon the head of our great & perpetual Aaron, according as it is spoken, Psal. 133.
5 Secondly as the mixtures of the diuine receit of this legal perfume were earthly creatures of themselues, so by these gifts and graces, of which the humanity is the subiect, and whereof the spouse speaketh in this place, we must vnderstand not that which is essentiall in the diuinity of Iesus Christ, in which thing the Eutychians abuse and deceiue themselues, but the qualities created by this diuinitie in the humanitie of Iesus Christ, of whom wee which are his members coulde not otherwise draw them by any maner of participation, Ephes. 2.21. These things are verie high I confesse and surpasse al natural knowledge: