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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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but I say that in all times the hall where the banquet is kept, whereof mention is made in Luk. 14.13. hath always been filled rather with impotent folk, lame, and blind taken out of the midst of the street, then with the rich and pompous which are in kings houses, Mat. 11.8. I say farther that albeit neither riches nor poverty are proper and essential marks of the Church, yet so is it notwithstanding that smallness & baseness of condition according unto the world, yea the cross it self, (not the cross of gold or silver transformed into a most detestable Idol,) but the cross which burdeneth the shoulders, & which is an enemy unto the flesh, is the ordinary companion thereof. But I say also that the rich which were in the church, were not of the church in the quality of men rich with worldly corruptible riches, but in the quality of poor, inasmuch as they used their goods so as if they used them not at all, according unto the saying of the Apostle, 1. Cor. 7.31. and 1. Tim. 6.17. and became lean and thin to pass thorough the eye of the needle, Mat. 19.24. laying up their treasure in heaven, Mat. 6.20. according unto the example of David that good and truly rich king Psal. 16.5. Finally I say that the buildings and vessels of the Church ought to be agreeable with the doctrine taught in the true Christian Church, which condemneth all superfluity and worldly pomps, and applieth the goods of the Church to the living stones thereof, as the practise was in the Apostles times, Act. 4.35. and in those times when the Pastors were of gold, and the Churches and the vessels thereof were of wood.
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