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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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4 And seeing the deadly taste of that forbidden tree hath caused us to lose all lust and appetite of eating and liking the fruit of the second, which is the only remedy we have against death, we are continually to pray unto God, that it will please him to make us to know the beauty and goodness of this fruit, to have a through appetite thereunto, to desire first to sit us under the shadow of it: which thing we are diligently to consider of. For among other commodities which trees have, in places of heat & of parching, their fresh & wholesome shade is not the least. And what heat or burning is greater then that of this world, seeing we bear besides within our selves, as it were the suburbs of hell, where that fire is which is never quenched? True it is that according unto the example of the rich man ▪ of whom mention is made, Luk. 15. the men of this world instead of perceiving this wretched and miserable estate, find therein a certain cool refreshing, & cannot abide them who would bring them thence unto this true refreshing shade, but in the end they feel it to their great & remediless sorrow; when they are fallen, as we say, out of a could fever into an hot ague, from whence they can never get out again. This shade therefore is the true repose & rest of a mans conscience, which is no where else to be found but under this tree, which we ought above all things to covet after, as himself also signifieth by that lesson which he teacheth us, Mat. 11.29. Let us add hereunto that which the ⟨p. 220⟩spouse saith, namely, that she is sitten under this shade. For to what purpose were it to enter into a place of refreshing, & afterward to go out of it? And this is it which serveth as it were for an indictment against so many flying & giddy minds & spirits, who happily begin well, but end most il: some of them wavering now on one side, & sometimes on an other, without resolving them selves any way, as Elijah reproached them of his time, 1. King. 18.24. others whirling about like fanes and weathercocks with every wind, Ephes. 4.14.