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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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7 But let us hear what the Bridegroom doth farther demand. Show me here, saith he, thy face, and let me hear thy voice, that is to say, let me hear thee and see thee. And what meaneth this? The Lord who seeth all things, and knoweth the very thoughts and that before they are conceived, and who heareth the words before they be pronounced, Psal. 139.4. the only searcher of the heart, Jer. 10. and whose eyes are specially upon this Dove, Psal. 34.6 is he absent from her? No, in no wise: but the Lord doth as a good workman, who having made some goodly and curious piece of work, although he that made it hath no need to enquire of what, or how it is made, taketh a pleasure notwithstanding to view and contemplate, yea to praise and admire it. And therefore it is also said in the history of the creation of the world, that the Creator took a view of his work, & finding it to be good, blessed it. Now is there a more goodly piece of work here below (after him who hath received the spirit without measure, and who is the head of his ⟨p. 283⟩spouse) then is the Church regenerated and reformed, and as it were fashioned anew upon the pattern it self the Son of God, into which she is incorporated to be altogether spiritual in him: not to be a piece of work without sense or motion, but Jesus Christ putting into her heart that which she ought to believe, and in her mouth that which she ought to speak, Phil. 1.19. Psal. 40.4. Isaiah. 57.19. and Psal. 51.17. as this high mystery is most amply declared unto us by the Apostle in his Epistles, and namely, Rom. 6. and 7. and 8. Ephes. 5.30.