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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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6 It remaineth we consider by piece-meal the building of this Coach, according as the pieces thereof are set down unto us in this place. This description therefore beginneth first with the matter wherewith the body of the Coach is built, namely of the wood of Liban, that is to say of Cedar, this tree having this property, that it is as a man would say incorruptible. This is it which I have already declared upon the last verse of the first Chapter, to wit, that thereby thus much is declared unto us, that this holy and sacred government is invincible, both in respect of time and of men. The reason is if we consider the generality of the Church, because the kingdom of this Bridegroom is everlasting, as the father promised him, Dan. 7.14. and Luk. 1.33. reaching it self and as it were walking from one end of the world unto the other, Ps. 2.8. & lifting it self up in the end above the heavens, Joh. 14.2. As also if we consider of every member of the church, which are as it were so many persons placed and conducted in this Coach, not one of them can perish, Joh. 6.39. & 18.9. What do you then shall I say men or devils, who seek to overturn this Coach? Who endeavour to hinder it in his course? Nay, who devise by all means to pull it in pieces? Alas poor caitiffs, it is of the wood of Liban, which resisteth all assaults. You do nothing but run your heads against the mountain, and are no wiser then your predecessors, who are dashed in pieces, and yet the mountain continueth still firm and stable. This Coach resisteth iron, and therefore will turn the edge of your swords. The fire cannot consume it, but purgeth it and maketh it more bright and glittering. This Coach floateth upon the water, and never goeth so under but that it cometh up again upon the water. Neither can death or time set-tooth in it, and how can the earth consume ⟨p. 369⟩us, seeing the grave doth nothing else but refine our bodies, to be afterward clad with incorruption,