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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 There follow now after this, the words of the spouse turning her self to the daughters of Jerusalem: which we must by name discern & distinguish as well from those which she called the upright, to wit, the ladies of her train; as from them of whom she complaineth afterward, and calleth the sons of her mother. Seeing then that we understand by this spouse the true Church of the Lord, and by the Virgins which follow her, those which from day to day are borne and bred up in her in the Lord, and by the sons of her mother the domestical enemies of the Church, abusing their authority to the ruining and destroying of her: it followeth that in this place by the Daughters of Jerusalem, we must understand the common sort, namely them which are in such sort in the Church, that notwithstanding they care not greatly for it, and referring themselves to ⟨p. 76⟩the present estate of religion, such as it falleth out to be, follow the course and rate of the market, as we say, yea and willingly adjoin themselves rather to the persecutors then otherwise.
5 There follow now after this, the words of the spouse turning her selfe to the daughters of Ierusalem: which wee must by name discerne & distinguish as wel from those which shee called the vpright, to wit, the ladies of her traine; as from them of whom she complaineth afterward, and calleth the sonnes of her mother. Seeing then that wee vnderstand by this spouse the true Church of the Lord, and by the Virgins which follow her, those which from day to daie are borne and bred vp in her in the Lord, and by the sonnes of her mother the domestical enimies of the Church, abusing their authoritie to the ruining and destroying of her: it followeth that in this place by the Daughters of Ierusalem, wee must vnderstand the common sort, namelie them which are in such sort in the Church, that notwithstanding they care not greatlie for it, and referring themselues to ⟨p. 76⟩the present estate of religion, such as it falleth out to be, follow the course and rate of the market, as wee say, yea and willinglie adioyne themselues rather to the persecutors then otherwise.