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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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Certainly nothing but his infinite goodness & love, as the Prophet writeth, Psal. 8.5. and 144.3. And who can say the contrary? This counsel of his being once determined, what induced this great God to execute and perform it by so rare, so strange, so admirable a means, that the Angels themselves (according as it was figured in those two Cherubins having their face turned over the covering of the Ark of the covenant) do yet desire to comprehend it more & more, Exod. 25.10. and 1. Pet. 1.12. Certainly this cannot have proceeded but from the same fountain of his unspeakable dilection and love, through which he had accepted of us in his ⟨p. 226⟩son, Ephes. 1.6. & Joh. 3.16. And what moved this Bridegroom, the eternal of God, to choose unto himself this polluted maiden to make her his spouse? To bear with her for so many her adulteries? Jer. 3.1. What more? To make himself subject unto the curse of the father, Gal. 3.13. to give his life for her, Ephes. 5.25. to carry her sins even upon the tree of his cross, 1. Pet. 2.24. Phi. 2.8. Certainly this love and goodwill of his, the depth whereof no man is able to sound, or measure the height, breadth, or length thereof, Eph. 3.18 And what is the ground and foundation of our faith, but this assurance, that we are loved with an unvariable and unchangeable Dilection?