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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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For all our knowledge touching the things we believe and our salvation, all our righteousness and integrity by virtue whereof we presume to call upon God, and to come before his throne in all holy boldness, all our change and newness of life also, whereby we begin to displease our selves in doing of evil, and to take pleasure in well doing, and consequently this whole deliverance of ours, the perfect accomplishment whereof we wait for, proceed all from him, in whom are resiant all the treasures of knowledge and understanding, Col. 2, 3. in whom there is no sin, 2. Cor. 5.21. who hath borne our sins upon the Cross, 1. Pet. 2.24. by whose obedience we are declared righteous, Rom. 5.19. who createth in us both to will & to do. Phil. 2.13. in a word he who alone is our Jesus, that is to say, Saviour and Redeemer, Mat. 1.21. & no other whatsoever, Act. 4.12. Besides these gifts, without the which no man can be of the church▪ there are an infinite number of other special graces which God bestoweth on such as are his▪ in such sort and so far as pleaseth him, according unto the divers vocations in which he will be served by them, whereof he is liberal sometimes towards them, who are never a whit the better by them, as we it see in Absalom, Ahithophel, Saul, Judas & others ⟨p. 175⟩of whom it is spoken, Matth. 17.22. & therefore it is unto the former gifts we must keep our selves. These are the jewels of inestimable value, which the spouse hath received of the liberality of her Bridegroom. For what have we which we have not received?