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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 he which was sacramentally represented by the beast which was sacrificed I mean Jesus Christ, who should in his time deliver up himself for us in oblation and sacrifice ⟨p. 185⟩unto God his father, in an odour of a sweet smell, and that which the faithful sacrificer received unto salvation was not that which he ate with the teeth of his mouth, wherewith the body was nourished, but the remission of his sins by the blood of him who blotteth them out, Rom. 3.24. and 1. Pet. 1.19. as the lord also looked not properly unto the beast which was sacrificed, or unto other spiritual oblations, but to the right intent & affection of the heart of the sacrificer, as it is said, Psal. 50.8. and 14. and 51. and. 19. which is the spike-nard whereof the spouse here speaketh. Likewise in the sacraments of the christian Church the corporal and visible water is not that which washeth our consciences: but doth indeed signify and represent unto our outward senses that which washeth away our sins & which sanctifieth us being apprehended and received by faith, I mean the spiritual and invisible sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, 1. Pet. 1.2. and 3.21. So likewise in the Supper of the lord, that which we see, touch, eat, and drink, is not that which feedeth and nourisheth us unto eternal life, but that verily which is sacramentally represented unto our spirit and unto our faith by the bread and wine, namely the body which was delivered for us, and the blood which was shed for us: briefly Jesus christ whole and entire, true God and true man, from whom being spiritually applied unto our soul by the virtue of the holy Ghost, by means of our faith, we draw remission of our sins, increase of our sanctification; and finally the juice of eternal life, both for our soul and also for our body.
but hee which was sacramentallie represented by the beast which was sacrificed I meane Iesus Christ, who shoulde in his time deliuer vp himselfe for vs in oblation and sacrifice