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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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21.30. And what will follow of this in the end? Mary even that which is said in the same Psalm 95.11. I have sworn in my anger, if they shall ever enter into my rest, and that which is said, Sopho. 1.12. At that time I will search every corner in Jerusalem with candles, and will visit those men which are frozen in their dregs and say, the eternal doth neither good nor harm. O wretched case, O miserable estate! And therefore for the honour of God, my brethren, let us be more careful for our salvation. Let us content us with that which is past, 1. Pet. 4.3. and let us not heap upon our heads the anger of God, against the day of wrath, Rom. 2.5. but seeing he saith again, up arise, let us do as our father Abraham did, who rose and departed out of his own land as soon as the Lord had said unto him. Get thee out of thy country, Heb. 11.8. & Gen 12.1. and as Matthew the publican, who being at the receipt of custom, so soon as the Lord had said unto him, follow me, stayed not to make up his books and to tell his money, but left all and followed him, Mat. 9.9. Moreover the only excellency, nay more then excellency of this speech of the Bridegrooms, should it not suffice to make the drowsiest of us all to awake, to speak, to run? For what a thing is it, to be called the love or beloved of this great Son of God, who hath loved us more then himself, by giving his own life for us to ransom & redeem us from death, Joh. 10.15. & 1. Pet. 1.19. yea to make us coheirs with him, Rom. 8.17. and what beauty is comparable unto this glory which waiteth for us, 2. Cor. 4.17. and 1. Cor. 2.9. of which we have already the pledges,