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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 27: THE XXVII SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in the…
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without adding to any new thing, or clipping therefrom, or changing ought, the Coach, God be thanked, of this bridegroom being of an other building then is saint Peters Church at Rome, a true figure of false religion, in which there is always some thing to be amended, added, or changed. And therefore they who began first not to content themselves with such ordinances, as were truly Apostolical, witnessed by their writings, what end thereof so ever they had, and what occasion so ever they pretended, opened the gap to all that confusion & desolation, whereunto the Church of God was by little & little most pitifully brought. So then to conclude this point, it is the bridegroom himself, & our only & true Solomon, who hath devised & built this Coach by his trusty & faithful Cochwrights, & Carpenters.
without adding to any new thing, or clipping therefrom, or changing ought, the Coche, God be thanked, of this bridegrome being of an other building then is saint Peters Church at Rome, a true figure of false religion, in which there is alwaies some thing to be amended, added, or chaunged. And therefore they who began first not to content themselues with such ordinaunces, as were truely Apostolicall, witnessed by their writings, what end thereof so euer they had, and what occasion so euer they pretended, opened the gap to all that confusion & desolation, whereunto the Church of God was by little & little most pitifully brought. So thē to cōclude this point, it is the bridegrome himself, & our only & true Salomon, who hath diuised & built this Coch by his trusty & faithful Cochwrights, & Carpenters.
4 But why is this house which is so strong and stable, that it prevaileth against hell-gates it self, Math. 16.18. compared here unto a Coach which is made to go from place to place? We have already yielded the reason thereof, to which ye shall add this which I will farther tell you. It is to show us how shamefully and wittingly they abuse them-selves, who dream that God hath tied his truth unto one sole place, or See, which men in our time have persuaded themselves to be the See of Rome: in so much that some are become so blockish blind as to think