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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.
6 That which the Bridegroom addeth of flowers with which the earth is tapestried, is referred unto the same that that before, being meant hereby the efficacy and working of the holy ghost in the Church, when it pleaseth God to bless the labour of his ministers and servants, in such sort that the whole ground of the Lord is throughout platted with flowers, which cast a sweet smell even unto heaven, being most pleasing unto the Lord, I mean, in Jesus Christ, saith the Apostle, 2. Cor. 2.15. and not in themselves, that men forge not unto themselves merits out of the qualities of the fairest and sweetest flowers, which our garden can bring, though it be blessed from above: ⟨p. 264⟩so far is it that that ground, on which the pestilent and contagious winds which come forth of the hollowness of the earth do blow, can produce these flowers which are here mentioned: how ever they smell sweet unto men, who bear themselves in hand, that the filth of their inventions, savour of musk before Lord. These flowers then are such as God soweth in his ground, 1. Cor. 3.9. namely by the ministry of such as he hath ordained to plant and to water, 1. Cor. 3.16. for which cause the Apostle calleth the Philippians his joy and crown, Philip. 4.1.
6 That which the Bridegroome addeth of flowers with which the earth is tapistred, is referred vnto the same that that before, beeing meant hereby the efficacie and working of the holie ghost in the Church, when it pleaseth God to blesse the labour of his ministers and seruants, in such sort that the whole ground of the Lord is throughout platted with flowers, which cast a sweet smel euen vnto heauen, being most pleasing vnto the Lord, I meane, in Iesus Christ, saith the Apostle, 2. Cor. 2.15. and not in themselues, that men forge not vnto themselues merites out of the qualities of the fairest and sweetest flowers, which our garden can bring, though it be blessed from aboue: