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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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IF our first Parent had not gone beyond and transgressed the commandment of his Creator and maker, the temperature & mutual harmony of the heavens and the elements had remained and continued in such compass and measure, that in this life, which the Apostle Saint Paul, 1. Cor. 15.45. maketh to consist of a living soul, man had received, neither hurt, nor change, but had been maintained and continued therein so long as it had pleased God. But man having so wretchedly and carelessly offended God, did most justly enthral and make himself subject unto death, Rom. 5.12. and thereupon have entered all the disorders and confusions, by which death hath been caused, aswell within men, as without: among the which we are to account among the principal causes, the changing of the seasons through which there happen these colds and heats, moistures and droughts, which are as it were so many preachers of the sins of man, and so many executioners of the just condemnation of him. This notwithstanding, it is a marvellous, nay an infinite grace & favour that the Lord hath so ruled this unruliness, & so ordered this disorder, signified by Moses, where he saith, that God being provoked by the sin of man, cursed the earth, Gen. 3.17. that for all this, the world is maintained and continued by a reciprocal and interchangeable succession of four seasons: which is reckoned up for a special favour unto mankind after the deluge Gen. 8.22. the sharpness of the winter, being bounded with the sweet and gracious spring-time, as if death were chased away by life: & the parching heat deadened ⟨p. 259⟩by the temperature of the autumn-time, according as the sun accompanied with light and with heat, cometh near, or goeth farther from us, a work of God marvellously, nay infinitely admirable.
IF our first Parent had not gon beyond and transgrested the commandement of his Creatour and maker, the temperature & mutual harmonie of the heauens and the elementes had remained and continued in such compasse and measure, that in this life, which the Apostle Saint Paul,