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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For how could the spouse sigh after her beloved, if she were not assured by faith of his love towards her? Rom. 10.14. Now faith is not of our selves: Ephes. 2.8. but it must be given us to believe. Phil. 1.29.
For howe could the spouse sigh after hir beloued, if shee were not assured by faith of his loue towardes hir? Rom. 10.14. Now faith is not of our selues: Ephes. 2.8. but it must bee giuen vs to beleeue. Phil. 1.29.
3 But let us on the other side remember that which the spouse teacheth us by these words, namely, that the free love of the Lord towards us, engender in us that other love, with which we love God, and with which the faithful love one another in the Lord, things so linked & knit together, that they cannot be separated. For as this is a sure testimony that we are the sons of God, if we love him: 1. Joh. 3.10. so again the love which we bear unto God is showed herein, that we ⟨p. 17⟩love one another: 1. Joh. 4.20. as the Lord himself so carefully advertiseth and warneth us in that excellent last sermon of his, which he made to his Disciples going to his death: and which was afterward so many times reiterated by his well-beloved Disciple in his first general Epist. And the lord himself saith in S.