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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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4 Every one of us then is constrained to confess, that every good thing cometh from God, whether we consider the essence and being which all the creatures have received of God, or the diverse qualities whereby they are maintained. Which thing is signified unto us by the Apostle Act. 17. when he sayeth, That in him we are, we live and have our moving, as if God the Creator did, as I may so say, insinuate himself within his creatures, to declare unto us the better, that divine efficacy & working of his, which is in them opened & displayed, according to that measure and durance it pleaseth him: although to speak properly, his divine essence, be ⟨p. 7⟩neither within, nor without the world, but comprehendeth all, it self being incomprehensible. But there are two other manner of conjunctions, yea rather unions of God with man, much different from that whereof I last spake, and of an effect of greater consequence, to wit, first of all the uniting of the eternal son of God with a true body and true humane soul in the womb of the blessed Virgin Mary, by a personal union, which to the Angels themselves is incomprehensible, by which, the word, which is the son, eternal and coessential with the father, was made flesh, Joh. 1.14. in such sort that since, this person, which is called Jesus Christ, Mat. 1.16. is true God and true man, without any either severing or confounding of the two natures: which is that great secret whereof the Apostle speaketh 1. Tim. 3. And upon this dependeth a third conjunction of our Immanuel with the believing, by the which every faithful person, and so consequently the whole church which is composed of them, is spiritually as it were married with Jesus Christ, and made flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones. Not that the body of Christ is really within our bodies, or his soul within our soul (which the truth and verity of his body and of his soul cannot suffer, as neither any such conjunction appertaineth any whit at all to this mystery, which is altogether spiritual and tending to a spiritual life) but because that as in an humane body, the soul, being naturally joined thereunto, quickeneth and liveth all the members of the body, if so they be knit and joined together according to the frame and building of the body: