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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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5 Besides all this, the in-side of this Coach being richly and costly carved for a testimony of the dilections of this Bridegroom toward the daughters of Jerusalem, ought not to be lightly passed over. And what is all this else, but that which is ⟨p. 381⟩comprised in the sacred books of the Scripture filled with an infinite number, not of dead pictures, or such as are of humane workmanship, but of memorable stories, penned and uttered by the holy Ghost. Let us therefore now, my brethren, enter into this Coach, & let us see whether it be possible to see and behold any thing in heaven or in earth, which may be compared unto these carvings and engravings. There we see first, this great work-master, making all of nothing, all things appearing suddenly at the sound of his word, and this goodly principal piece of work of man, moulded as it were upon the pattern of the Divinity it self, Genes. 1.26. There we see afterward this mighty Creator in the person of him who was after made our deliverer and redeemer in person, running after those two forlorn children, applying unto that deadly wound, so soon as it was made the remedy of an immortality far more excellent then that whereof our first parent had deprived himself, and us all his posterity, Genes. 3.1. Go we farther & behold the Bow of the Lord engraving in heaven the patience of the Creator which endureth still unto this day, Gen. 8.13. notwithstanding our rebellion continued almost four thousand years after the flood. Look we further, and with what pleasure do we behold Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, walking through infinite by-ways & dangerous, and in the space of four hundred years their race, amidst most profane people, full of unthankfulness & desperate rage, multiplied unto the number of six hundred thousand persons, besides the women and little children. Behold a little further the undauntable insolencie of Pharaoh minding to stay the course of this Coach beaten and vanquished, by frogs, by flies, by lice, at the shaking only of the rod of one of the servants of this great king. Behold after this the Coach charged with so great a multitude passing on dry land through the midst of the sea, which swallowed up all the enemies which pursued it: behold the bread sent from heaven, behold with one stroke of a small rod the most hard rocks cleft, to water almost 40.