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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.
Ye bellows of hell-fire which live by setting others a pleading, & lengthen the parchment as much as you may, will you always profane and defile this holy and sacred name of Justice? Ye dissolute, ye idle and do-nothings, coming to sermon for a show and countenance only, or to sleep when you are there, when will you learn why you came into the world before you go out of it? Ye gamesters and wasters both of your own & others, will you forget the sermon which some of your companions made on the scaffold not long ago? Briefly ye men will you always be men? children of that first Adam? Flesh of flesh? Instead of being regenerate of the second Adam author of everlasting life? What shall I say more? God give you grace and mercy, God give you grace to cast far from you these filthy rags, to be adorned with his jewels and chains received of him and before his face.
Yee bellowes of hell-fire which liue by setting others a pleading, & lengthen the parchment as much as you may, will you alwaies profane and defile this holy and sacred name of Iustice? Yee dissolute, ye idle and do-nothings, comming to sermon for a shewe and countenance only, or to sleep when you are there, when will you learne why you came into the world before you goe out of it? Yee gamesters and wasters both of your owne & others, wil you forget the sermon which some of your companions made on the scaffold not long ago? Briefly yee men wil you alwaies be men? children of that first Adam? Flesh of flesh? Insteede of being regenerate of the second Adam author of euerlasting life? What shall I say more? God giue you grace and mercy, God giue you grace to cast far from you these filthy ragges, to be adorned with his ieweles and chaines receiued of him and before his face.
8 But let us note also that albeit as we shall afterward see there be no part in this spouse from the head unto the feet which is not of a singular beauty, notwithstanding the spouse speaketh expressly in this place of the cheeks and of the neck, that is of the most sightly and apparent part in every person, and which indeed might grace and beautify the ill-favouredness of the rest. And this is to teach us this lesson, that albeit the graces which are here spoken off have their seat in the bottom of the hart, according unto the saying of the Apostle,