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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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And therefore here was no principality which men have falsely attributed & given unto S. Pet. but he wrought mightily as the others did in his charge and quarter. In this sense therefore it is that we must understand these twelve foundations, and foundation-layers: only we must take heed how we say that S. Paul, who notwithstanding built more than any other, 1. Cor. 15.10. & Barnabas were forgotten in the vision of S. John. For the whole book of the Apocalypse declareth that the forms there of speaking are applied & fitted to the manner of the Judaical common-weal: in which because there were 12. tribes, mention is made of 12. gates, and 12. foundation-layers only.
And therefore here was no principality which men haue falsly attributed & giuen vnto S. Pet. but he wrought mightily as the others did in his charge and quarter. In this sense therefore it is that we must vnderstand these twelue foundations, and foundatiō-layers: only we must take heed how we say that S. Paul, who notwithstanding built more thē any other, 1. Cor. 15.10. & Barnabas were forgotten in the vision of S. Iohn. For the whole book of the Apocalypse declareth that the forms there of speaking are applied & fitted to the manner of the Iudaical common-weale: in which because there were 12. tribes, mention is made of 12. gates, and 12. foundation-laiers only.
8 And to the end that this may more clearly appear in this allegorical description, let us note that these Pillars have two ends or extremes, the one below, the other above. The base or lower end is sustained by the bottom of the Coach, the top or upper end by the vault of the covering. These pillars therefore are not they properly which hold and bear up the covering, but only because themselves have their bases, and are sustained upon the bottom. And this is also the cause why it is said, that they are of silver: but the bottom is of gold. First, because Jesus Christ is truly the only foundation stone,