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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.
THE ELEVENTH SERMON. Our help be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the first Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the eighth verse.
THE ELEVENTH SERMON. Our helpe be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the first Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the eighth verse.
8 If thou know it not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee forth, & go & follow the trace of the flock, and feed thy kids by the tents or cabins of the shepherds.
8 If thou knowe it not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee forth, & goe & folowe the trace of the flock, and feede thy kiddes by the tents or cabbins of the sheepheards.
1 That Satan hath always disguised the marks of the Church. 2 The true Church leaveth not therefore to be always fair and precious in the sight of God. 3 Wherefore the Church, though she be in such estate, leaveth not for all that to be the Church, against the opinion of the Catharists and Donatists. 4 The West Babylon is nothing less then the Church, but how God hath drawn and yet draweth forth his always thence, by awakening them with his singular mildness and clemency. 5 We must come forth out of Babylon if we will not perish with it, and how we must do it. 6 The examples of Joseph & of David and of Moses different and divers in this respect, applied unto our time. 7 Changing of place is not going forth of Babylon. 8 To become a Monk is nothing less then to go out of the world. 9 An answer unto them who at this day seek to find an agreement between