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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
Sermon 26: THE XXVI SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in the t…
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4 And if hereupon any man demand wherefore there is here mention made of the desert, I answer that it is in respect of the first beginning of this people, which before their journeying into the desert, was but one family, and began first to be a people in the wilderness, where god ordained them a manner of policy and common-weal and gave them a form of a people: neither are we to stay our selves on this desert of Arabia, & namely that of Sinai and Pharan. For to speak in a more generality, the Church being chosen out of the midst of the world, not only in respect of that time, but from age to age, according as some die and others succeed them, she was indeed drawn, and is yet every day drawn out of the most horrible ⟨p. 350⟩& hideous deserts, that can be in nature: in consideration whereof Joshua warneth the people to remember that Abraham himself & Thare were taken & drawn out of the desert of Idolatry, Josu. 24.2. which the head of every family in Israel was in express terms as it were to acknowledge and confess in doing fealty & homage by his first-fruits, Deu. 26.5. This is it whereunto also the lord had regard, when he saith, that instead of harts of stone (which is the desert in which he findeth us) he will give us an hart of flesh, Ezech. 36.26. that is to say, of a soft & tender matter, easily to receive that which his spirit writeth therein, according unto the tenor of the new covenant, Jer. 31.33. Isaiah. 54.13.
4 And if hereupon any man demaund wherefore there is here mentiō made of the desert, I answere that it is in respect of the first beginning of this people, which before their iourneying into the desert, was but one family, and began first to be a people in the wildernesse, where god ordained thē a maner of policie and common-weale and gaue them a forme of a people: neither are we to stay our selues on this desert of Arabia, & namely that of Sinay and Pharan. For to speak in a more generality, the Church being chosen out of the midst of the world, not onely in respect of that time, but from age to age, according as some die and others succeede them, shee was indeed drawen, and is yet euery day drawen out of the most horrible