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

OF the bed of the Bridegroom we have already spoken, now there is here made a most magnificent description of his Coach, according unto the whole frame and building thereof: whereas concerning the bed there is no speech but in general, and of the guard about it. The reason thereof is, because that to say the truth that repose & rest which is figured unto us by that bed, in which the Bridegroom doth yet stay for & expect his spouse, there to rest with him for ever in perpetual bliss & felicity, 1 Thess. 4.17. is yet unknown unto us, nay is incomprehensible, having received nothing yet but the pledges thereof: but the Coach representing unto us the holy ministry of the word of truth and of life, ought to be perfectly known unto us, that it may be set up and used among us. Moreover in that the Coach is added unto the bed, it showeth us, if we consider of the ancient covenant, that the bridegroom had in such sort erected and set up his bed in that Temple, and the seat of his kingdom in Jerusalem, where he said he made his dwelling place, Psal. 132.13.14. that notwithstanding he would make, as it were, his progress throughout the whole country, for which cause not only the Cities of the Priests, but the families also of the Levites, were dispersed here and there throughout the whole country, as the sacred history showeth us. But it was indeed especially under the new covenant ratified by the coming of the Bridegroom, that he indeed walked and made his progress▪ first in person throughout the whole country, ceasing neither day nor night, preaching unto the world the joyful tidings of the performance and accomplishment of the promises, Act. 10.38. and the true year of Jubilee to be put in the possession of our true heritage, Isaiah, 61. and sending after his ascending above the heavens his Apostles, and after them Pastors and Doctors for the gathering together of his elect from all the four corners of the world, Eph. 4.11.

OF the bed of the Bridegroome we haue already spoken, nowe there is heere made a most magnificent description of his Coch, according vnto the whole frame and building thereof: whereas concerning the bed there is no speech but in generall, and of the gard about it. The reason thereof is, because that to say the truth that repose & rest which is figured vnto vs by that bed, in which the Bridegroome doth yet stay for & expect his spouse, there to rest with him for euer in perpetual blisse & felicity,