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

3 What excuse then shall our temporizers at this day have, who albeit they be in their consciences convicted, expect notwithstanding some of them the resolution and determination of a general council to be resolved: others some assurance of peace, before they will show themselves and return unto the flock? But if the door be shut in the mean time, who will open it? Mat. 25.10. Esa. 22.2. If the time which served to find him be lost, who will assure us we shall find him again? Matth. 25.10. Joh. 12.10. Isaiah. 55.6. But say these kinds of people; some, I am no clerk. Desire therefore and labour to be one. For why hath God bestowed a reasonable soul & understanding upon thee? Come thou therefore unto him who hath made the eyes, & who giveth eyes unto them which have none, Psa. 140.8. know that thou art blind, & thou hast already received a good beginning of light, Joh. 9.39. Others say they cannot tell what to do, there are so many contrary opinions among the Doctors and teachers themselves. The like mought they have said who followed Jesus Christ when the people were divided into Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenians, Nazarites, Herodians, Samaritans. What must we do then? That which the spouse here teacheth us. We must take a good and holy courage unto us, and go farther. For in the end we shall meet with Jesus Christ. But will he descend visible from heaven to make himself to be seen? No, for he hath already descended, and hath withdrawn himself up again into heaven until the latter day, in respect of his corporal presence, yet notwithstanding he continueth with his by his quickening power to the end and consummation of the world. But where is he in a word? Verily there whither he sendeth us, namely in his scriptures, as we declared at large the last Thursday, which answer Abraham also made unto that rich damned wretch, Luk. 16.29