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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
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yet nevertheless this did not altogether satisfy & content them, knowing that their hope respected that which was to be accomplished and fulfilled in his time, namely, then when the heir should come himself in person into his vineyard, Mat. 21.38. And therefore our Lord Jesus Christ said, Luk. 10 24. Many kings and prophets have desired to see that which you have seen, and have not seen it, and to hear that which you hear, & have not heard it. The which thing is also witnessed by Saint Peter, 1. Pet. 1.11. This is it then which the spouse in this place meaneth, as if she should say: O Lord my Saviour & my beloved, I have received commendations enough, messages enough, testimonies enough, that thou wilt come in person, and accomplish thy marriage: but when, when will this blessed hour and time come, in the which thou wilt join thy self really unto me, with the chaste & holy kisses of thy own mouth? For in very truth it may and ought to be well said, that the son of God hath kissed us, yea more than kissed us, by joining himself in such wise and so near unto us, that the man whom he hath taken unto himself, is not only the image of God his Creator, as was the first Adam, but is true God & true man in one only person: and that in such sort, that this joining and uniting himself with our nature neither is nor shall be ever severed or broken: by this means his mouth hath ever, & doth yet remain, as it were glued upon ours, by this holy kiss of his.
yet neuerthelesse this did not altogither satisfy & content them, knowing that their hope respected that which was to be accomplished and fulfilled in his time, namely, then when the heire shoulde come himselfe in person into his vineyearde, Mat. 21.38. And therefore our Lord Iesus Christ said, Luk. 10 24. Many kings and prophets haue desired to see that which you haue seene, and haue not seene it, and to heare that which you heare, & haue not heard it. The which thing is also witnessed by Saint Peter, 1. Pet. 1.11