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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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10 As for the ancients and Elders they are become * Penitentiaries, * Proctors in the court ecclesiastical, Dataries, Bullists, Copyists, &c.* & to make up & perfect this ruin, ordinary Creators and Sacrificers of a Jesus Christ of dowe, and all for what will you give me, and for ready money.
10 As for the ancients and Elders they are become * Penitentiaries, * Proctors in the court ecclesiasticall, Dataries, Bullists, Copistes, &c.* & to make vp & perfect this ruine, ordinary Creators and Sacrificers of a Iesus Christ of dowe, and all for what wil you giue me, and for ready mony.
11 As for Deacons, receivers and governors of the church-alms and goods according to the order and practise of the Apostles, to speak in a word, this is the state and calling of all this whole Hierarchy, if to be a Deacon, and Church-robber as Judas, be all one. But the name only being left to serve for a part of the Masquerade of an high mass, it was requisite that Subdeacons should be added, to mock the poor silly sheep coming to offering.
11 As for Deacons, receiuers and gouernors of the church-almes and goods according to the order and practise of the Apostles, to speake in a worde, this is the state and calling of all this whole Hierarchy, if to be a Deacon, and Church-robber as Iudas, bee all one. But the name only being left to serue for a part of the Masquerada of an high masse, it was requisite that Subdeacons should bee added, to mock the poore seelie sheep comming to offering.
12 As for Doctors, it may be said in a word, that the Lord of his great mercy hath not permitted, that that which is as it were the nursery of the Church, I mean schools of good learning, should in such wise be utterly abolished & taken away, as the other parts of that which God would have established in his Church. But contrariwise it hath pleased him to stir up in sundry ages, Emperors and Kings, who have had a care of founding & erecting of them through a worthy & laudable instinct and purpose, and which a man may say to have been and yet to be the mean that God hath used to preserve and maintain the society of man, for the study and knowledge of liberal arts and sciences. But touching the