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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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14 In such sort deal they with the Prophetical dignity of our Lord Jesus Christ, calling their own dreams and inventions, inspirations of the holy ghost: as if that which hath bin declared by the Prophets and Apostles, touching our salvation, were not sufficient, or might happily be in some point corrected and amenced. In a word when they are come so far as to say, write & maintain, that they, calling themselves the Church, cannot err in doctrine, that their Pope cannot be deceived, and that no man living may say unto the Pope though he should lead whole troupes of souls unto hell, sir what do you? & when hereupon they cut and clip the doctrine of God as pleaseth them, is not this to overturn from the top to the bottom the Prophetical authority of the son of God, as much as in them lieth?
14 In such sort deale they with the Propheticall dignitie of our Lorde Iesus Christ, calling their owne dreames and inuentions, inspirations of the holy ghost: as if that which hath bin declared by the Prophets and Apostles, touching our saluation, were not sufficient, or might happily be in some point corrected and amenced. In a woord when they are come so farre as to say, write & maintaine, that they, calling themselues the Church, cannot erie in doctrine, that their Pope cannot be deceiued, and that no man liuing may say vnto the Pope though he should lead whole troupes of soules vnto hell, sir what doe you? & when hereupon they cut and clip the doctrine of God as pleaseth them, is not this to ouerturne from the top to the bottome the Propheticall authoritie of the sonne of God, as much as in them lieth?
15 As little have they left the Priesthood of Jesus Christ whole and untouched, having added & annexed unto his expiation and satisfaction for our sins whatsoever came into their own brainsick fancy, as holy water chrism, oil, wax, spittle, beads, pilgrimages, & other such babbles they could think upon or devise. Briefly having gone so far as to forge a real and substantial oblation of Jesus Christ by the hands of their Priests, for a satisfaction for the sins of the quick, & the dead, adding thereto notwithstanding the merits both of the living who are yet in the way, and of the dead comprised in their Litanies and Processions, unto whom they have attributed such store of merits, that there yet remain an infinite number of them to be sold and distributed for ready money to all such as have need of them: things so strange and abominable