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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
Sermon 16: SERMONS ON THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE CANTICLE OF CANTICLES. THE SIXTEENTH SERMON. Our h…
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But when god speaking either unto his servants, or by his servants, declareth us the same, he is then as it were a verbal expositor of that which many (were it not for this) would never observe in the contemplation of the heavens, or of the earth, or of other the creatures of God. And hereunto we must refer a great number of places of the holy Scripture, which are as it were a gloss and commentary of that which the good and goodly creatures of God do testify unto us without speaking.
But when god speaking either vnto his seruants, or by his seruants, declareth vs the same, hee is then as it were a verbal expositor of that which many (were it not for this) would neuer obserue in the contemplation of the heauens, or of the earth, or of other the creatures of God. And hereunto we must referre a great number of places of the holy Scripture, which are as it were a glosse and commentarie of that which the good and goodly creatures of God doe testifie vnto vs without speakeing.
4 Secondly because this whole manifestation of Gods so great and magnificent majesty, could not but astonish us, nay condemn us, & make us altogether inexcusable, Rom. 1.20. Therefore hath God revealed and manifested from heaven an other more notable & excellent mystery, I mean the gospel, announcing and preaching unto us the free reconciliation of God with us, together with all the virtue of the spirit of God, ⟨p. 207⟩to enlighten and to change our hearts: wherein God again useth the means of visible things, but yet after a manner and fashion somewhat diverse and different from the former. For as concerning the first point which we have touched, the lord maketh himself as it were the expounder of the book of nature. But in this second point he useth his creatures to a more excellent end, and such as passeth and goeth beyond the end of their creation, that is to wit, to aide and help us to conceive this high and supernatural secret of our salvation and of the author thereof the Son of god, and of that which dependeth thereon, inasmuch as he taketh and draweth from these corporal & visible things, similitudes, aiding & helping greatly for the conceiving of things spiritual. This appeareth by infinite similitudes & parables or comparisons found in the holy Scriptures, and especially in the history of the gospel, which if we have well rooted and planted in our memory, there is nothing can present & offer it self unto our eyes which induceth us not to think on God to dedicate our whole life unto him.