Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles

As if Saint Peter, the See of Rome, and they who sit in it were all one. Yet this I will well confess notwithstanding, that since the time of many ages they who have sate in this See, and have made a throne thereof and exalted it as much as lay in them, above that of God himself (in that they attribute unto themselves the power to dispense with the Law of God, and the authority not to be judged of any man living, yea to have power to command the Angels) that they, I say, are not fallen from the faith which they never had nor never cared after or took thought for: I let pass other allegations of theirs, which how frivolous and foolish they be the very little children are able to judge. And what hath come to pass in this behalf which was not expressly foretold by Jesus Christ and his Apostles, and found true by the experience of our time? Matt. 7.15. Luk. 21.8. Joh. 5.43. Act. 20.30. Rom. 16.17. Philip. 3.2. and 2. Thess. 2.4. and 1. Tim. 4.1. and 6.3. and 2. Tim. 3.1. and 2. Pet. 2.1. and 3.16. and 1. Joh. 2.18. Now if these so express predictions and prophecies suffice not, and that the whole ecclesiastical story cannot serve for sufficient proof, at least let a man now open his eyes and see the effects thereof more apparent and great then great and mighty mountains, I mean the effects thereof in all the ground articles of Christian Catholic doctrine, that is to say, the doctrine which God hath delivered unto his