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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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2 But let us go out of this sink, and return unto this spouse, who is now awaked by her Bridegroom, and invited and called unto the other part of Christian life, that is to say, the other kind of conversing with her Bridegroom, namely unto the practise of that which she hath learned and meditated. For what is this else, to rise and to take her way to come unto him, but ⟨p. 243⟩to order and direct the course of her life according unto her vocation, conformably unto the commandments of God? Thy word, saith the Prophet, Psal. 119. v. 105. is a lantern unto my feet, and a light unto my going. And this is the reason why we are warned to walk in his ways, and wherefore Jesus Christ said Walk while you have the light. But how shall they march forward and walk, who have no legs? Truly this must be by him and by no other, who giveth eyes unto the blind, and straightneth them whose limbs are crooked, Psal. 146.8. unto whom the Prophet said, Teach me thy right ways. And this is the very cause also why the spouse in this place confesseth that she was awakened by the voice of her Bridegroom, and not of her self. For if we cannot of our selves pray as we ought, Rom. 8.26. how can it proceed of our selves either to wi• or to do? Phil. 2.13. But this voice must also be heard & received by his grace, who openeth the heart to hear well, Act. 16.14. as this spouse in this place witnesseth, showing that she is the true Church, according unto the saying of Jesus Christ, that his sheep hear his voice, & not the voice of a stranger, Joh. 10.3.5. In a word therefore, we would never come unto him, nay never so much as think to go unto him, if he came not first unto us, to warn us thereof, nay to form in us the desire of going unto him: and which more is, if he accompanied not this grace of going unto him, with a second grace of blessing and effecting in us this desire of going unto him to the end that that might be accomplished in us which he saith by his Prophet, I have made my self to be found of them who sought not after me,