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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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And therefore when in the old testament the appeasing of the wrath of God is attributed unto the sacrifices, as also in the writings of the Apostles, these words of washing, and of communicating of the body and of the blood of the Lord, and of putting on of Jesus Christ are attributed and given unto the visible and corporal signs▪ this is not to yield unto the signs that which is incommunicably proper & belonging unto the thing signified (for we know that water washeth not the soul, & that the soul neither eateth nor drinketh) but this is to show the difference between these things considered in the common usage ⟨p. 186⟩of this life, and the self same things considered as sacraments, that is to say, as visible signs of that which the Lord there giveth us, and which he worketh invisibly in our soul: if the fault be not in our selves, that is to say, if in stead of receiving by faith we reject them not by our incredulity.
And therefore when in the old •estament the appeasing of the wrath of God is attributed vnto the sacrifices, as also in the writinges of the Apostles, these woords of washing, and of communicating of the bodie and of the bloode of the Lord, and of putting on of Iesus Christ are attributed and giuen vnto the visible and corporal signes▪ this is not to yeeld vnto the signes that which is incommunicably proper & belonging vnto the thing signified (for we know that water washeth not the soule, & that the soule neither eateth nor drinketh) but this is to shew the difference between these things considered in the common vsage ⟨p. 186⟩of this life, and the self same things considered as sacraments, that is to saie, as visible signes of that which the Lord there giueth vs, and which hee worketh inuisibly in our soule: if the fault be not in our selues, that is to say, if in steede of receiuing by faith we reiect them not by our incredulity.