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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9 What more? Besides this, this very same power which is the holy Ghost, by whom we were in the beginning created unto the image and likeness of God, and which hath afterward fully sanctified our nature in Jesus Christ our brother: by reason whereof he is also called our anointment, 1. Joh. 2.27. poureth forth the effects of the same holiness and uprightness into the hearts of the believing, abolishing by little and little that old most stinking nature, and making on the contrary side a new & altogether another nature to be born: 1. Pet. 1.23. to will & to do according unto our measure, those things which are acceptable unto God, Phil. 2.13. besides the special ⟨p. 51⟩and particular gifts which the same spirit distributeth unto us, drawing them from him which is the fountain of them, Joh. 16.15. 1. Cor. 12.11. as all the scripture witnesseth speaking of our second creation or regeneration. And this is also the cause why the works of Christians being perfumed by our Lord Jesus Christ, who worketh in our harts by his spirit, Rom. 8.14. are acceptable unto god, Rom. 12.1. among the which the principal is the invocation of his name, of which the prophet speaking and having respect unto this sacramental perfume, said, Psal. 141.2. Let my prayer appear before thee, as the perfume, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice: as it is also said Apoc. 8.4. The works of charity towards our neighbour come after in the second place, ascending up also even unto the lord by this perfume,