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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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15 Farther let us note that he speaketh in this place of the Church, not as of a ground planted altogether new, but as an ancient possession & heritage, which being for a time laid wast or fallow, hath been husbanded anew and manured. For as for the true Church of God, she shall be always found to be more old and ancient, then the false, seeing that truth is before lying, and that which is sound and entire before that which is false and corrupted. So was Adam created after the Image of God, before he was deformed by sin: and after sin was entered, Adam and Eve believing the promise of salvation (for otherwise there should have been no Church in the world) the Church which is the city of God, had her beginning before the city of Satan, which began from Cain & his. But seeing that men have, time without mind, accustomed to set forth and commend themselves under the name of Antiquity, especially unto them who are ignorant, whose ignorance they abuse who live by this abuse: behold how it cometh to pass that they which will not suffer themselves to be better taught, take often times that which is new for old, and that which is old for new. Such are they of whom Saint Peter speaketh, who said of that time, when a man spake unto them of the second coming of the Son of God to judge the world, which we yet wait for, that all things were, as they are now, since the first fathers: which thing is false saith he. For they should know that the world was not created in such sort in the beginning as now it is, ⟨p. 268⟩[…] ⟨p. 269⟩[…] ⟨p. 270⟩and that God hath already executed an horrible judgement on the corruption thereof. In this sort after the captivity they reproached Jeremiah, that he had marred all, and that then and before he meddled with preaching unto them, they and their fathers found themselves in good case by calling upon the Queen of heaven and burning incense unto her, Jerem 44.17. nay which more is, when they heard Jesus Christ himself to speak, they said, What kind of new doctrine is this? Mar. 1.27. But Jesus Christ answered them, Search the scriptures for they speak of me,