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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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7 Let us hear now what he saith of his spouse, to the end to make us the more desirous to enjoy her company. Like as the Lilly, saith he, among the thorns, so is my love among the daughters. We have already spoken of this most excellent name and indeed precious of Love or Welbe-loved, under which is comprised all manner of blessing, and the fountain and spring from whence it floweth, which is the merely free love of God towards them, who are by nature his enemies, Joh. 3.16. and Rom. 6.10. and therefore without farther standing hereon, we will only consider the causes wherefore the spouse is here compared unto a Lilly, and wherefore these words among the thorns are added. The faithful, (the assembly and company of whom in one mystical body of Jesus Christ is called the Church) are compared sometimes to goodly trees bearing fruit at all times, Ps. 1. sometimes unto palm trees & Cedars of Libanus, Ps. 92.13. sometimes unto a fruitful vine, Psal. 80.9. in this place she is compared by her Bridegroom unto a Lilly, as himself was also called a lily in the verse going next before, to show us the agreeableness and convenience between these two. Behold therefore two Lilly plants, both of them most fair and most sweet. But the first is a Lilly of himself and in himself, yea so perfect a one, as hath no fault or blemish in it. But this second being of it self a dead plant and infected, is made a Lillie, by drawing of the nature and juice of the true Lillie whereunto it is incorporated: clean contrary unto that which falleth out in grafts of mens planting, in which the graft remaining still in his own nature, the wild stock on which he was grafted, is altered and changed. Such are the faithful called goodly fruitful trees, but it is by virtue of the water, which is always at the foot of ⟨p. 212⟩their root, Psal. 1.3. who are called Palms and Cedars, but it is because they are planted in the house of the Lord,