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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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the painted & disguised strumpet, counterfeiting the chaste spouse of Jesus Christ so well, and displaying the beams of her outward beauty so magnificently for the most part, that all both great and small take her to be the true, & thereupon the poor spouse, which is the true spouse indeed, is forced to retire into the deserts, until the time of indignation be past, Isaiah. 26.20. Apo. 17.14. That this is so it cannot be denied, but that a man shall be convicted by the whole history of the Church, and by that which we see at this day with our eyes. Thence I conclude that the multitude and the greatest and apparent number is a most false mark of the true church: but without standing either on few or more, we must keep us unto this infallible point, that the true Church and worthy of the name of Catholic and universal is that, which maketh a true profession of the doctrine preached & entirely registered by the Apostles to be the only rule of trueth unto the whole company of the elect.
the painted & disguised strumpet, counterfaiting the chast spouse of Iesus Christ so well, and displaying the beames of her outward bewtie so magnificently for the most part, that all both great and small take her to be the true, & thereupon the poore spouse, which is the true spouse indeed, is forced to retire into the deserts, vntill the time of indignation be past, Esay. 26.20. Apo. 17.14. That this is so it cannot be denied, but that a man shalbe conuicted by the whole historie of the Church, and by that which wee see at this day with our eies. Thence I conclude that the multitude and the greatest and apparant number is a most false marke of the true church: but without standing either on few or more, we must keep vs vnto this infallible point, that the true Church and worthy of the name of Catholicke and vniuersal is that, which maketh a true profession of the doctrine preached & entirely registred by the Apostles to be the onely rule of trueth vnto the whole company of the elect.