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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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7 Now followeth the point of intercession, in which we have said that Jesus Christ hath no more a companion, then in the redemption. Against this some oppose the mutual prayers of the Saints, praying unto God daily one for an other, yea for their very enemies. The answer is easy, that notwithstanding the faithful for all this are not therefore intercessors in any superior degree betwixt God and them, for whom they pray: but join equally together their mutual prayers, which are all of them referred unto this only intercessor between God and men, on whose alone intercession in all and through all dependeth the whole virtue of their prayers, whether they ⟨p. 133⟩pray for an other or for themselves.
7 Now foloweth the poynt of intercessiō, in which we haue saide that Iesus Christ hath no more a companion, then in the redemption. Against this some oppose the mutuall praiers of the Sayntes, praying vnto God dayly one for an other, yea for their very enemies. The answer is easie, that notwithstanding the faithfull for all this are not therefore intercessors in any superior degree betwixt God and them, for whom they praie: but ioyne equally together their mutuall praiers, which are al of them referred vnto this only intercessour betweene God and men, on whose alone intercession in all and through all dependeth the whole vertue of their praiers, whether they ⟨p. 133⟩pray for an other or for themselues.
8 These things being well considered and weighed as they deserve to be, show us most evidently and to the eye, who they are whom the spouse in this place calleth her husbands companions, whose company, and that worthily she liketh not, namely those who attribute unto themselves, that which is properly belonging unto the Bridegroom, as if some invited by the Bridegroom to bear him company at the time of his fiances or espousals, in stead of contenting themselves to bear him company & do him courtesy As friends to rejoice with him,