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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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8 From thence also flow 2. other points of most necessary doctrine. First that the Church is not there where men do feed, that is to say, do teach their own inventions, whether they forge a doctrine altogether new, Isaiah 29.13. or whether they ⟨p. 107⟩add, change or diminish any thing from the word first preached and afterward registered by the Prophets and Apostles, which the Lord calleth the leaven of the Pharisees: Mat. 16.11. & whereof the Apostle distinctly and expressly speaketh, Col. 2 from the 16. vers. unto the end of the Chapter. Secondly that as little ought every assembly to be called the church, in the which there is no feeding, but foding of the poor people with songs and right masquerades and mummeries, and that in an unknown language: among whom, even those which usurp the names of pastors are dumb dogs, devouring the sheep as it were bread, Psal. 14.4. in steed of feeding them, Joh. 10.10. and not only ignorant, and utterly unable and unfit for their calling, but even unworthy of the name of Christians, having never learned, nay not so much as once thought upon indeed what christian religion meaneth, who neither enter in themselves into the kingdom of heaven, nor suffer others to enter thereinto, Luk. 11.52. that being truly fulfilled in them which was foretold by Isaiah, 28.9. and so on. Now whether at this day and heretofore, the clergy of Rome, who attribute unto themselves the name of the Catholic Church, be such or no, the very children themselves can judge and perceive.
8 From thence also flow 2. other points of most necessary doctrin. First that the Church is not there where men do feed, that is to say, doe teach their owne inuentions, whether they forge a doctrine altogither new, Esay 29.13. or whether they ⟨p. 107⟩adde, change or diminish anie thing from the word first preached and afterward registred by the Prophets and Apostles, which the Lord calleth the leauen of the Pharisees: