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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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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.
1 A briefe rehearsall of the Sermon going before. 2 The Church leaueth not to bee a Church for some defects of hers, bee it in manners or in doctrine. How we ought to beare our selues in such a case. The difference betwixt a bodie which hath some fauls & defect, & a bodie vtterlie rotten in the most noble and chiefe parts. 3 The crosse ought not to bring the Church out of knowledge, but is contrariwise an expresse demonstration thereof. 4 The great desolations of the Church haue happened by the principall of them within it. 5 Wherefore the spouse speaketh here of a vine. 6 In what sense the Church calleth hir persecutours the sonnes of hir mother. 7 Whence the anger and despite of bastard brethren proceedeth against their innocent sister, euen to put her sometimes out of the house. 8 The application of this Doctrine to the estate of the Church, frō many ages, vnto this which is now.
WE have understood the words of the spouse turning her speech unto the daughters of Jerusalem, that is to say, unto them who according to the diversity of times which went before Solomon, & followed afterwards, being Israelites by name, made small reckoning notwithstanding of knowing either what religion was (amidst the conflicts and strifes they had with the nations bordering about them) or what this spouse meant, or else applied themselves to the greatest and mightiest, despising the poor estate and condition of the small number of the children of God, as appeared by the writings of the Prophets, and as it happened unto Jesus Christ himself,