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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 like is to be said of the sacramental signs of the holy Supper of the Lord, to wit, that the bread and the wine are holy and sacred testimonies ordained of God to witness unto our eyes things invisible, and such as are effectuated and wrought in us by the only working and power of the holy Ghost, namely, that as receiving bread and wine corporally for the nourishment of the body and maintenance of this corporal life: so embracing by faith our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man, he is made ours and we are made his most nearly and straitly by a spiritual communication which we have with him, and by the true juice of spiritual and eternal life and nourishment which we draw from him: to the end to live eternally in body and soul with him, when this blessed and happy day shall come. I say therefore again, that, to attribute any inward virtue and power unto the words, though the words be such as are ordained by God and pronounced in his name: semblably to attribute any virtue unto the administrators of the word or of the sacraments: yea farther to attribute any spiritual force of working unto the sacramental signs, is a most open and detestable, not only superstition, but also Idolatry.
The like is to bee said of the sacramentall signes of the holy Supper of the Lorde, to wit, that the bread and the wine are holy and sacred testimonies ordained of God to witnes vnto our eies things inuisible, and such as are effectuated and wrought in vs by the onelie working and power of the holie Ghost, namely, that as receiuing bread and wine corporally for the norishment of the bodie and mainteinance of this corporall life: so embracing by faith our Lord Iesus Christ, true God and true man, he is made ours and wee are made his most nearely and straitly by a spiritual communication which we haue with him, and by the true iuyce of spirituall and eternall life and nourishment which we draw from him: to the end to liue eternallie in bodie and soule with him, when this blessed and happie daie shall come. I saie therefore againe, that, to attribute anie inwarde vertue and power vnto the woords, though the wordes be such as are ordained by God and pronounced in his name: semblaby to attribute anie vertue vnto the administratours of the woorde or of the sacramentes: yea farther to attribute anie spiritual force of woorking vnto the sacramental signes, is a most open and detestable, not onelie superstition, but also Idolatrie.