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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.
5 To go on, we are to observe that it is not in this place alone that the heritage and possession assigned and allotted to the Church of the Jews (I mean the land of Canaan) is compared to a vineyard well planted, well husbanded, environed and compassed about with good ditches for her defence and safeguard, and blessed most plentifully with all manner of blessings: but also Psal. 80. by Asaph in the time of David and Solomon, and afterward by Isaiah 5.1. Jer. 2.21. Eze. 17. which was afterward most largely and amply expounded by the Lord himself: Mat. 21.33. Neither is it without most great and weighty reason that the holy Ghost useth this similitude as being marvellous apt & convenient, seeing there is no kind of possession more profitable and fruitful, or which requireth more care and diligence to be husbanded and trimmed. And ⟨p. 95⟩because that as there is but one god, so there is but one faith & one Church, as also at that time there was but one only land consecrated and hallowed unto God, one only people comprised in the covenant, one only place established and consecrated in Jerusalem for the outward ordinary service of the Lord: therefore the spouse speaketh here but of one vineyard in the singular number, to the which the strange vineyards are contrary opposed in the plural number, because false worships and religions, and false Churches are without number.
5 To go on, we are to obserue that it is not in this place alone that the heritage and possession assigned and allotted to the Church of the Iewes (I meane the land of Chanaan) is compared to a vineyard well planted, well husbanded, enuironed and compassed about with good ditches for her defence and safegard, and blessed most plentifully with al manner of blessings: but also Psal. 80. by Asaph in the time of Dauid and Salomon, and afterward by Esay 5.1. Ier. 2.21.