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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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Neither doth Solomon in the mean while forget to speak of the persecutions which should happen unto the Church, even by her own, and the vocation of the gentiles, together with the most assured and excellent promises, with which the Bridegroom entertaining his Bride comforteth her by the often reiteration & recital of his most ascertained promises, accompanied with great spiritual blessing which are no less than gages & pledges unto the Church of his second most glorious and majestical coming.
Neither doth Salomon in the meane while forget to speake of the persecutions which should happen vnto the Church, euen by her owne, and the vocation of the gentiles, together with the most assured and excellent promises, with which the Bridegrome entertaining his Bride comforteth her by the often reiteration & recitall of his most ascerteined promises, accompained with great spirituall blessing which are no lesse than gages & pledges vnto the Church of his second most glorious and maiesticall comming.
6 This is then the sum and scope of this Canticle or song: which is therefore called the Canticle of Canticles, or Song of Songs either because of the excellency thereof above all other songs contained in the scriptures (so far is it, that it should be rejected) or for that it is composed of many Canticles or Songs, by reason of the persons which answer one the other. ⟨p. 11⟩And because no man should doubt of the author or rather the pen-man of this treatise, it is said expressly, that it is composed by Solomon: by Solomon, I say, when he was filled and replenished with the wisdom of God, and not then, when he followed after his wantonness and folly. In whose sliding we must as it were in a looking-glass behold our selves, desiring the Lord to grant us his grace, so to profit in this Canticle, that we pass and surpass herein Solomon himself, keeping carefully in our harts, that which Solomon let slide out of his, except we will say that in his old age (which thing may in part be gathered out of the book of the Preacher) he had the gift of repentance, although the Scripture make no express mention thereof, and that at the least his Idolatries endured many years after him.