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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.
11 For behold the winter is passed, the rain is changed, it is gone away. 12 The flowers appear in the earth, the time of singing (of the Birds) is come, the voice of the Turtle hath been heard in our country. 13 The fig tree hath brought forth his young figs, & the vines with their grapes have cast forth their savour.
11 For behold the winter is passed, the rain is chaunged, it is gone awaie. 12 The flowers appeare in the earth, the time of singing (of the Birds) is come, the voice of the Turtle hath beene hearde in our countrie. 13 The figge tree hath brought foorth his young figs, & the vines with their grapes haue cast forth their sauour.
1 How the harmony of the heavens & the elements, was put out of tune in the elementary part of the world, by the sin of man. 2 The spiritual world, which is the Church, hath her four seasons also, according as the sun draweth near, or is farther off, but conducted by a secret direction of a special providence of God. 3 Example of these seasons. 4 After what sort the bridegroom having driven away the parching of the summer, and the rigour and sharpness of the winter, inviteth & leadeth his spouse unto the spring-time. 5 A description of this spring-time. 6 What the fair flowers of the church are in their season. 7 The Lord planteth with these flowers the ground-plot of his Church, by his holy gardeners. 8 A comparison of these goodly flowers with the false gloss of the false Church. 9 A complaint touching the sterility & scarcity of these flowers in all estates of Christians in our days. 10 The sonnets and songs which ring in the true Church opposed to worldly poems, and unchaste and filthy ballads. 11 The song of the Bridegroom inviting his spouse. 12 The song of the spouse answering her Bridegroom. 13 Together with the flowers are found likewise most pleasant fruits in the garden of the true spouse. 14 A difference between the fruit of this garden, husbanded and trimmed by the bridegroom, and those virtues which men call moral. ⟨p. 258⟩15 The garden of the Church is not replanted a new after the winter is past, but hath been & doth remain planted from the beginning: and how greatly they are abused who take that which is old for new, and that which is new for old. 16 The young figs, must become perfect figs: and the young sower grapes, must ripen and become good raisins. 17 An exhortation upon all that which went before, grounded upon the fig-tree which was cursed by the bridegroom.