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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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Colos. 2.10. although of mere grace & mercy it pleaseth him to accept of & to crown the fruits of his spirit in us.
Colos. 2.10. although of mere grace & mercie it pleaseth him to accept of & to crowne the fruites of his spirit in vs.
10 What are we then to do? Even this in a word, that according unto the example of this spouse, nothing savour us but Jesus Christ, holding the rest, as being infected by us▪ for dung and filthiness, I say as being infected and polluted by us. and by reason of us. For when Moses sayeth that God cursed the earth because of the sin of man, as he had before made and blessed it for man, Gen. 3.7. he teacheth us in general, that there ⟨p. 52⟩is nothing in this world which hath not some spot of the curse of God, as experience it self doth also show us the same. But this is especially declared by that pollution which consisteth in this, that men pollute and defile both themselves and all the creatures of God, when neither they can, nor they will, so long as they remain in their own nature, use them as it appertaineth, that is to say, in good measure, with an upright conscience, and to the honour of the Creator. I speak of those which are otherwise lawfully to be used, and of which the use were pure, if we used them well: as for example, travail for to get our living, eating, drinking, clothing, loving of father, of mother, of country, & of other things, in which we shall ever find some default or excess: and above all, this most infectious vice, of not referring all unto the glory of God. And what shall we say of those things which are directly contrary to the will of God, with which the world is wholly infected both within & without? The Lord of his mercy give us grace to know throughly indeed such our filthy & stinking uncleanness, & contrariwise to seek after this so precious and sweet odour, with which this spouse is said to be perfumed, running down from the Ivory palaces, of which mention is made