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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.
THE SEVENTH SERMON. Our help be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the first Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the sixth verse.
THE SEVENTH SERMON. Our helpe be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the first Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the sixth verse.
6 Regard me not that I am brown, for the sun hath looked upon me. The sons of my mother were angry against me, they set me to keep the vineyard, but I kept not my own vineyard.
6 Regard me not that I am browne, for the sun hath looked vpon me. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee, they set mee to keepe the vineyard, but I kept not my owne vineyard.
1 A brief rehearsal of the Sermon going before. 2 The Church leaveth not to be a Church for some defects of hers, be it in manners or in doctrine. How we ought to bear our selves in such a case. The difference betwixt a body which hath some faults & defect, & a body utterly rotten in the most noble and chief parts. 3 The cross ought not to bring the Church out of knowledge, but is contrariwise an express demonstration thereof. 4 The great desolations of the Church have happened by the principal of them within it. 5 Wherefore the spouse speaketh here of a vine. 6 In what sense the Church calleth her persecutors the sons of her mother. 7 Whence the anger and despite of bastard brethren proceedeth against their innocent sister, even to put her sometimes out of the house. 8 The application of this Doctrine to the estate of the Church, from many ages, unto this which is now.