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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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6 Thirdly the better to understand the convenience and correspondence of the sign and of this thing signified, we ⟨p. 48⟩must consider wherefore these graces, with which the divinity perfumed his humanity, are called perfumes. It is therefore to show us first of all, that as a good perfume hindereth & chaseth away the stench of any thing that is stinking & infecteth: so the sovereign perfection which is in the humanity of our mediator mortifieth and putteth away from God all the stench of our corruption, and of whatsoever ariseth thence, in such sort that in him, who is by good right most acceptable unto him, Mat. 3.17. we be also acceptable unto him, Ephse. 1.6. Further as the odoriferous fume mounteth up on high, albeit it be poured forth, and perfumeth all which come near it: so the graces of Jesus Christ which are poured forth upon us to perfume us, as they came from above, so tend they upward & serve not to hold us here below: for which cause also Jesus Christ, for either of these reasons, is called the man from heaven: 1. Cor. 15.48. and we are taught by him when we pray and say Our father, to ad, which art in heaven, whither we lift up our selves, as being already by God sitting with him in the heavenly places, whither this spouse aspireth and contendeth, and we with her if we be his true children, Colos. 2.6. Ye see then what we are to gather upon these three points, I mean, touching this sign, figured in the Law by those corporal and sensible holy perfumes, & the thing signified by them, namely the perfections with which Jesus Christ is endowed in all perfection, (in as much as he is our elder brother) and thirdly touching the correspondence, which is between this sign & the thing signified.
6 Thirdly the better to vnderstand the conuenience and correspondence of the signe and of this thing signified, we ⟨p. 48⟩must consider wherefore these graces, with which the diuinity perfumed his humanity, are called perfumes. It is therefore to shew vs first of al, that as a good perfume hindereth & chaseth away the stench of any thing that is stincking & infecteth: so the soueraigne perfection which is in the humanity of our mediatour mortifieth and putteth awaie from God all the stench of our corruption, and of whatsoeuer ariseth thence, in such sort that in him, who is by good right most acceptable vnto him,