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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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4 Let us now return to this Coach of the bridegroom, prepared by him therein to receive his spouse. A man may therefore marvel why there is here no mention made of wheels or of Coach-horses: things which seem altogether necessary to make this Coach to go. But the reason is evident, namely because this Coach moveth not properly by any human art & industry, but by the sole virtue & power of him who made the Coach and conducteth it after a most especial and divine manner. And yet this is not therefore to exclude the ministry, either of Angels, which thing is represented unto us in that heavenly chariot which Ezekiel saw with his wheels: Ezech. 1.5. or that of men, seeing that before the spouse was compared unto the Coach-horses of Pharaoh, as also Elisha said seeing Elijah carried up on high, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof, 2. King. 2.11. or natural causes, whereof mention is made Exod. 1.10.13. & 14.21. & Psal. 18.11. but to show us that all the second causes (the question being of that which concerneth the kingdom of God) do work always in such sort, that God reserveth unto himself the glory of the effect of them, according unto that which the Apostle saith even of his own ministry, that he which planteth and he which watereth is nothing (I mean in respect of the inner working) but God is all who giveth the increase, 1. Cor. 3.7. So far is it then that any man, nay any Angel of heaven can guide the course of this spiritual Coach, that contrariwise themselves must be guided & conducted in this Coach by the wheels of his only providence who hath made it & conducteth it, & that by such carriers, mountains & valleys incomprehensible unto any creature. Notwithstanding the holy ministry was not omitted in the description of this Coach, in which they were represented by the pillars of silver as we declared this day eight days
4 Let vs now returne to this Coche of the bridegrome, prepared by him therein to receiue his spouse. A man may therefore maruaile why there is here no mention made of wheeles or of Coch-horses: thinges which seeme altogether necessarie to make this Coche to goe. But the reason is euident, namely because this Coche moueth not properly by any humaine art & industrie, but by the sole vertue & power of him who made the Coche and conducteth it after a most especiall and diuine manner. And yet this is not therefore to exclude the ministery, either of Angels, which thing is represented vnto vs in that heauenly chariot which Ezechiel saw with his wheels: