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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.
Whither was then the resort and repair of Levi, flying as it were in flocks with as many as feared the Lord into the rock of the temple of Jerusalem? 2. Chron. 11.14. But alas what was this nest, under the greatest part of the kings of Judah, from Rehoboam unto Zedechias? A nest profaned villainously polluted with the dung of Idols, as the story witnesseth, and is especially most amply declared in Ezech. 16. What could then the poor children of God do but sigh & mourn like unto poor pigeons in their small holes? Such was the flight of the prophets into wast & desert places of Israel under Elijah and Elisha, 2. Kings 4.38. And yet was this poor culver-house sorer shaken, and as it were utterly overturned by Jezebel, insomuch that an hundred of the Prophets were hidden by a good man in two caves, and fed with bread and water, 1. King. 18.13. Behold also Elijah himself brought unto that extremity, that he was fain to be fed in an hideous desert by two ravens, 1. King. 17.16, & by the ministry of an Angel, 1. King. 19.5.6. And during the captivity this poor dove being driven thrice away by that horrible northern wind which razed at length the dove-house & the City, did she not nest, and as it were hide her head in secret holes? For so is it said, Isaiah. 26.20. and under the horrible persecution of Antiochus, whither retired she herself with Mattathias? 1. Macab. 2.17.
Whither was then the resort and repaire of Leui, flying as it were in flockes with as many as feared the Lord into the rocke of the temple of Hierusalem? 2. Chron. 11.14. But alas what was this nest, vnder the greatest part of the kings of Iuda, from Roboam vnto Zedechias? A nest prophaned vilanously polluted with the doung of Idols, as the storie witnesseth, and is especially most amply declared in