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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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UPON Thursday last we learned how the spouse awaked by the spirit of god, who formed in her an holy desire of seeking him again, seeing him not in the bed where she slept, was not therefore clean out of hart, but getting her self up showeth, that because she found him not, her desire of seeking after him was so much the more augmented. And indeed as we said the last day, this is the means by which the Lord not suffering himself to be always found at the first, sharpeneth the faith and hope, and fortifieth the patience of his, as we see it by infinite many of examples of the holy Scripture. So the people served as a stranger four hundred years, ⟨p. 319⟩in the land of Canaan and of Egypt, and forty years in the desert, and seventy years in Babylon. So did Joseph endure much in prison, and David during his flight, saying in the 40. Psal. I waited and waited for the Lord, and he heard me. According therefore unto these examples if in diverse difficulties and distresses touching our conscience, either in perils or adversities, it seemeth, that the Lord, as I may so say, flieth from us, let us run courageously after him, until he suffer himself to be taken of us. But who shall continue unto us this vigour and courage? He who for the love which he beareth us first, formeth in us the love whereby we love him reciprocally, as the spouse doth thrice here reiterate it: that is to say, not feignedly as hypocrites do: nor so so, as they who are neither hot nor cold, nor seething, but luke-warm: and therefore are by and by vomited up. Apoc. 3.16. whereas they who are violent and importune, catch the kingdom of heaven away by an holy importunity, Matth. 11.12. Luke. 18.2.
VPON Thursday last we learned how the spouse awaked by the spirit of god, who formed in her an holy desire of seeking him againe, seeing him not in the bed where shee slept, was not therefore cleane out of hart, but getting her selfe vp sheweth, that because she found him not, her desire of seeking after him was so much the more augmēted. And indeed as we said the last daie, this is the means by which the Lorde not suffering himselfe to bee alwaies found at the first, sharpeneth the faith and hope, and fortifieth the patience of his, as we see it by infinit many of examples of the holy Scripture. So the people serued as a straunger foure hundred yeares,