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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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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 ⟨p. 135⟩principal part of this so great a benefit, which is the school of divinity, this is there where Satan hath served his turn with sugar to turn it into most bitter and deadly poison: having banished out of the school of divinity that which was the only subject thereof, I mean the reading and expounding of the text of holy Scripture, to thrust thereinto an abominable confusion of dreaming sophistications, some as vain as curious, others absurd, others full of impiety: in such sort, that to be a Doctor in such a thing, is no more but to be farther off from pure and sound doctrine, as the Apostle so diligently warneth us, 1. Tim. 1.4. and 4.7. while Satan goeth forward in the utter overthrow of all their Clergy having transformed them into shops & brothels of Sodomitry and instruments unto all sacrilege and simony.
12 As for Doctors, it may bee saide in a woorde, that the Lorde of his great mercie hath not permitted, that that which is as it were the nurcerie of the Church, I meane schooles of good learning, should in such wise bee vtterlie abolished & taken awaie, as the other parts of that which God would haue established in his Church. But contrariwise it hath pleased him to stir vp in sundry ages, Emperours and Kings, who haue had a care of founding & erecting of them through a worthy & laudable instinct and purpose, and which a man may say to haue beene and yet to bee the meane that God hath vsed to preserue and maintaine the societie of man, for the study and knowledge of liberall artes and sciences. But touching the ⟨p. 135⟩