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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.
2 Now for the better understanding of what weight this reason is, we must know what these companions are with their flocks. For may it be said that Jesus Christ hath any companions? No: if we speak properly: which thing must be particularly handled, that we fall not into most great and dangerous errors. We have therefore to consider in our Lord Jesus Christ two principal points, namely his person and his office of mediation. As touching his divinity there is no comparison betwixt him and any creature: and we must hold this general sentence without exception, that God will never give either in whole or in part, his honour unto an other: which doth fundamentally overthrow all kind of Idolatries whatsoever. As touching his humanity being distinctly and by it self considered, he is called indeed son of man, that is to say, true man in all and through all, of like nature in substance of body and of soul with us, being in this respect extracted & brought from Adam; as Luke witnesseth in his genealogy, Luk. 3.38. but as touching the qualities of the same nature, otherwise qualified altogether then they who are not regenerated by the spirit, between whom & him there is no more agreeableness then between light and darkness, 2. Cor. 6.14. And as touching them which are changed & renewed by his spirit, there is truly a very great agreeableness and accord, being guided and governed ⟨p. 114⟩by the same spirit, enlightening their understanding, Ephes. 1.18. and creating in them both to will and to do, Phil. 2.13. to be followers of him, Ephes. 5.1. walking as he hath walked: 1. Joh. 2.6. by reason of which conformity they are also called the children of God, Joh. 1.12. and light, Ephes. 5.8