Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles

10 It is not then without just and great cause (the which notwithstanding no man understandeth but he which is born of the spirit, and which hath his senses fashioned thereunto and purified, to discern rightly betwixt that which is good and that which is il: Heb. 5.14. that this blessed company promiseth that she will forget the wine, that is to say, all the most alluring delicacies of this life, to take her whole pleasure in the meditation of the dilections of this her beloved, using again a word of the plural number to signify more expressly the plenty and abundance of that which God hath reserved in store for his, as also before she made mention not of one cabinet and secret chamber, but of secret chambers, according to that which the beloved afterward said, that there are many lodgings and chambers of abode for the elect in his fathers house: Joh. 14.2. ⟨p. 69⟩and we may not doubt but that by this word of Delicacies we are to understand, not only that which is besides the necessity, which is required to the entertainment of this life, according to the saying of the Apostle, that having food & raiment we be therewith content, seeing we brought nothing into this world nor shall carry any thing out of it: 1. Tim. 6.7. but also that we must go so far, if we be true Christians, that nothing, be it of the highest, middle or lowest quality, no not our own selves, which we should not cast far from us, and to which we should not say I know thee not: Deut. 33.9. so far as it should turn us never so little from that duty which we owe unto God. And this is that which Jesus Christ signifieth by those forms of speaking, of hating of father and mother for the love of him: Luk. 14.26. of cutting off the hand and the foot, and putting out the eyes: Matth. 18.8 and not seeking to savour life: Mat. 16.25