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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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that the Lord is never late or slack in coming, that is to say faileth not to come at the point, yea and that leaping over all that which might seem to slack & stay his coming: but it is he which hath made the time, and who measureth it in such sort as it best appertaineth, which measuring of his a man can no more reasonably find ⟨p. 248⟩fault withal, then if he should blame the sun for not rising at night or at noon.
that the Lorde is neuer late or slacke in comming, that is to saie faileth not to come at the point, yea and that leaping ouer all that which might seeme to slack & staie his comming: but it is hee which hath made the time, and who measureth it in such sort as it best appertaineth, which measuring of his a man can no more reasonablie finde ⟨p. 248⟩fault withal, then if he should blame the sunne for not rising at night or at noone.
7 But all this which we have said touching these mountains & hills is not the principal, as being a thing easy to be understood, that there is neither force nor subtlety which can hinder or withhold the almighty so much as a moment of time. But know you what these great & terrible mountains are which stand so high between god & us? They are our sins, they are our iniquities, they are our wickednesses which indeed separate and divide us from God: Isaiah. 59.2. And herein we must take heed how we flatter or sooth our selves. For truly these sins of ours, these transgressions of ours, these wicked impieties of ours, are grown and heaped up from time to time into huge and great mountains before the face of the everliving. And what hath the Lord always done? Hath he not traversed these mountains to take pity upon his chosen and elect? What huge mountain was the sin of Adam? what mighty rock raised between God and the world, was that confusion which brought the deluge upon the world? If we pass farther in considering of the time under and after the law, what else shall we find, then that which Daniel in that most excellent prayer of his acknowledgeth and confesseth?