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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.
THE SEVENTEENTH SERMON. Our help be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the second Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the 3. and 4. verses.
THE SEVENTEENTH SERMON. Our helpe be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the second Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the 3. and 4. verses.
3 As is the Apple tree among the trees of the forrest, so is my Welbe-loved among the young men. I have earnestly desired his shade, I sate down, and his fruit was sweet unto my mouth. ⟨p. 215⟩4 He brought me into the place of the banquet, and his banner over me was Dilection or Love.
3 As is the Apple tree among the trees of the forrest, so is my Welbe-loued among the young men. I haue earnestly desired his shade, I sate downe, and his fruite was sweete vnto my mouth. ⟨p. 215⟩4 He brought me into the place of the banquet, and his banner ouer me was Dilection or Loue.
1 Wherefore the Bridegroom is likewise compared unto a tree which beareth fruit. 2 What the forrest of this world is since the Sin of man, and what difference there is between this tree and others. 3 Whence the appetite we have of eating of the fruit of this tree, opposed to that tree whose fruit our first father was forbidden to eat, proceedeth. 4 It is not enough to look on this tree and to account him fair: but we must also sit under the shadow of him. 5 We must also eat of the fruit thereof, and this fruit is very sweet. 6 The Bridegroom leadeth his spouse farther having eaten and relished this fruit into the hall where the banquet is, that all of us together be there fully fed and satisfied; which thing is at this day especially represented unto us in the banquet of the holy Supper. 7 Where this banqueting hall is, and how we ought to behave our selves therein being brought into it. 8 A comparison of this banqueting hall, with the haunts of the false Church. 9 A large & ample description of the banner of Dilection, under which the spouse resteth and reposeth. 10 An exhortation to come unto this banquet.