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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.
for they are well agreed in this point, and Madam is as good as Monsieur, and Monsieur as Madam, master as mistress, and mistress as master: nay here it is and among these you shall find all stinking vanities and superfluities from the head to the feet, what ever laws the magistrates make to the contrary, what warnings so ever we make them in the name of God, what visitation so ever the Lord lay upon them. For what can all this do or profit?
for they are well agreed in this poynt, and Madam is as good as Mounsieur, and Mounsieur as Madam, maister as mistres, and mistres as maister: nay heere it is and among these you shall finde all stinking vanities and superfluities from the head to the feete, what euer lawes the magistrates make to the contrary, what warnings so euer we make them in the name of God, what visitation so euer the Lord lay vpon them. For what can all this do or profit?
10 The Bridegroom addeth, that the time of the music of the birds is come, & that the turtle hath been heard. But what music is this? And what are these songs? Not these unchaste and filthy poems which men bring us even hither, so stinking that ⟨p. 267⟩never came greater infection out of the dungeons of the most infamous brothel-houses that ever were: not such sounds as are cast into the air in a tongue unknown, both to the fingers themselves, and to such as hear them sing. 1. Cor. 14.15. Not these infamous hymns or proses full of Idolatry, which the Idolaters howl forth unto their dumb Idols, 1. King. 18.16. Not these cantels & morsels of scriptures warbled, quavered and, crocheted to give pleasure unto the ears: not these vain and sottish songs and ballads which the fields ring of all harvest and vintage time: but those, those songs, I say, which God teacheth unto the heart, & putteth in the mouth of those who are his,