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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.
THE XXI SERMON. Our help be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the second Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the 13. and 14. verses.
THE XXI SERMON. Our helpe be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the second Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the 13. and 14. verses.
13 Arise my Love, my fair one, and come away. 14 My Dove which keepest thy self in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the ascent thereof, show me thy face, let me hear thy voice: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face is comely.
13 Arise my Loue, my faire one, and come awaie. 14 My Doue which keepest thy selfe in the clefts of the rocke, in the secret places of the ascent thereof, shew me thy face, let me heare thy voice: for thy voice is sweete, and thy face is comelie.
1 The Bridegrooms calling to awaken his spouse, so often reiterated, declareth what natural heaviness and drowsiness is in the best sort, which can be corrected by no other means, then by the voice of the Bridegroom only, who maketh himself to be heard. 2 The spouse is sometimes made so wild and so hared, that she is forced to give place unto her persecutors: but yet remaineth a Dove still in her holy purity. 3 Examples of this under the old covenant. 4 Examples of the same under the new covenant, beginning from Jesus Christ himself. 5 The Romish puttock hath scared the Dove out of the plain: but the Bridegroom hath begun in our time to reclaim her. 6 The spouse, the Dove thus scared, instead of stooping, skirreth aloft, where she findeth her sure rock to foot on. 7 The spouse being brought down from the rock, where for a time she was hid and remained dumb, must make her self to be clearly seen and heard of her Bridegroom. 8 An exhortation to put this doctrine throughly in practise. 9 A reprehension of the negligence of some, and the unthankfulness of others in this behalf.