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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
Sermon 23: THE XXIII SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in the…
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THE XXIII SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in the third Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the first verse.
1 By night in my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
1 By night in my bed I sought him whō my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.
1 The spouse by falling asleep in her chiefest peace & tranquillity is the cause of her own desolation. 2 The Bridegroom notwithstanding leaveth not to awake her in his time, and the great difference which is between this awaking and that which proceedeth from the biting of sin. 3 The faults committed in the seeking after the Bridegroom, which is the cause why he is not found by such seeking after. 4 The greatest blessings of God both temporal and spiritual, by ill using of them, become the instruments of mans ruin and destruction. 5 Application of this doctrine to such as are asleep in our time. 6 An other kind of sleep which turneth often times into an incurable lethargy. 7 The resolution we ought to make touching the points which are at this day controversed in Christendom, in the matter of religion. 8 An answer unto them, who say that we sell Paradise very good cheap. 9 We must rise out of our bed to find this Bridegroom. 10 The conclusion of this matter, with an exhortation for the through practise of this doctrine.