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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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and elected & chosen us, not in our selves (no more than he hath made us by our selves) Psal. 95. but in his well-beloved: not that we were already holy, but that we should be made holy, Ephes. 1.4. Will we have examples hereof? Abraham followed the Lord, but it was because he was then called, when he was a poor & miserable Idolater among others. Jos. 24.2. Isaac was the child of promise apprehended by his father Abraham by faith, & therefore was he engendered beyond & above the order of nature. Gen. 18.13 Rom. 4. for it is God which must give children unto Abraham, that is to say, make himself a Church, it is not in Abraham to give a Church unto God. Jacob inherited the blessing, because God loved him, and not Esau: Gen. 25.23. and Mal. 1.2. Moses is sent to deliver the people, but it is as it were maugre ⟨p. 16⟩himself. Exod. 3.11. The people is brought into the land of Canaan, but it is being forced thither as it were by constraint. The prophets have spoken, but it was because the spirit of God was upon them: the Apostles followed Jesus Christ, yea, but being then called, when they thought on naught else but their nets & their fishing. Saint Paul was a chosen instrument of God, but by a special & singular grace, then when he was a blasphemer & persecutor. 1. Tim. 1. Briefly, to go no further for examples, of every one of us which are here assembled, as it were out of all quarters of the world, every man taking a view of himself, is there any one to be found, who can rightly and in conscience say, that he first knew God, and hath first spoken unto him? Nay let us all on the contrary side protest and confess before the face of the Lord, that which is spoken by Isaiah, namely, that he hath made himself to be found of them which sought him not.