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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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7 For who else soweth these flowers but the Lord, who sendeth them from an high, by his most precious word, dispensed and administered by the order which he hath established? Isaiah. 5.2. namely under the Law, in that magnificent temple together with all his furniture and provision, & by that so well ordered army of the Priests and Levites, in that magnificence, which is particularly painted out unto us, in the first of the Kings & the first of the Chronicles, whereunto we must adjoin the wisdom of Solomon, which gave his shining brightness unto the ends of the world, accompanied with all other blessings of God, by which his people became admirable & wonderful to all the nations of the earth. But yet were all these flowers nothing in comparison of the ministry of the gospel, committed first unto the Apostles & Evangelists his most excellent and diligent planters and sowers, 1. Cor. 3.9. by whom the garden-plot as it were of this world being turned up a new, & transformed into a new terrestrial paradise was afterwards in his time not only simply checked and enamelled with flowers, but also enriched with the most precious treasures of that which is above the heavens, poured down first in all abundance and perfection upon the head of this Bridegroom, who afterward made an admirable and infinite larges thereof on the day of Pentecost, as the Apostle maketh that goodly reckoning of them, 1. Cor. 2. and especially Ephes. 4.11. speaking of the vocations truly ecclesiastical, which are the true beauty and ornament of the Church, not accompanied ⟨p. 265⟩with such temporal blessings, as was the Temple & kingdom of Solomon, but altogether spiritual and incomprehensible, and hath the cross it self for her garland, and as it were an especial mark that she is not of this world, but hated and persecuted of the world, as was her head, Joh. 17.14.16. unto whom we must by this means be made conformable in death, to be also one day in life and in glory,