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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 19: THE NINETEENTH SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in…
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THE NINETEENTH 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 8.9. and 10. verses.
8 This is the voice of my well-beloved, behold he cometh leaping over the mountains and skipping over the hills. 9 My well-beloved is like a Roe, and like an Hind-calf. Behold he is behind our wall, looking through the window, and showing himself through the lattice. 10 My well-beloved hath spoken unto me and said, Up arise my love, my fair one, and come thy way.
8 This is the voice of my welbeloued, behold hee commeth leaping ouer the mountaines and skipping ouer the hils. 9 My welbeloued is like a Roe, and like an Hind-calfe. Behold he is behind our wall, looking through the window, and shewing himselfe through the lattise. 10 My welbeloued hath spoken vnto mee and saide, Vp arise my loue, my faire one, and come thy waie.
1 Three great abuses committed in contemplative life falsely called religion. 2 It is from the voice of the Bridegroom that this desire proceedeth of putting our selves into the way and going forward in our vocation. 3 Application of this doctrine unto the Church of Geneva. 4 The more then marvellous diligence and carefulness of this Bridegroom, to run unto his spouse. 5 A comparison of this diligence with our sluggishness. 6 The first high mountains▪ which satan and his complices have reared to keep the spouse from her Bridegroom, which the Bridegroom mounteth readily over, without staying a moment. 7 Other exceeding rough and craggy mountains of our sins and iniquities, traversed also over by the Bridegroom. 8 The Bridegroom hath also taken upon himself the bottomless gulf of the curse of God his father, to run unto our delivery with this burden on his shoulders. 9 The difference between the new and the old covenant, represented by the similitude of a wall, and of a grate or lattice. 10 This Bridegroom hath never been dumb, and the abuse committed in this behalf in the false Church. 11 The word of the Bridegroom serveth to no purpose, if men hearken not unto it, and if they awake not themselves in deed. 12 Wherefore this spouse is called the fair one, opposed unto her which is nothing but painted.