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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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years long all this multitude. Behold the Coach, arrived at the river of Jordan ⟨p. 382⟩after it had beaten down & battered two mighty kings, passing the river on dry ground, making the high walls of Jericho to moulder and fall to ground before it. Behold this Coach battering down, trampling under, dashing in pieces thirty kings beyond Jordan. Behold the people in this Chariot of triumph, victoriously placed in the land of promise, where they are so chastised for their faults, that notwithstanding they obtain in the end, so many miraculous trophies as this Coach sustained assaults, yea beating down their enemies sometimes with pitchers, Jud. 7. sometimes with an Ox-goad, Jud. 3.31. though for one time he suffered his Ark, which was as it were his seat in the conducting of his Coach, to be taken as it were prisoner: but what? This was to cut off Dagon's legs and arms, 1. Sam. 5.4. to strike his enemies on the hinder parts, & by lashing them with the whip to make them serve him for horses & thillers to bring his Coach whither pleased him. There follow after this, lamentable & heavy things, but the Coach remaining self-upright, only discharging it self of many which had shoved themselves into it, & became unworthy to abide in it. Such was amongst others that caitiff Saul, having embrued himself with the blood of one of the principal pillars of this Coach, 1. Sam. 22.16. and it seemed that then, and after that, this Coach was overturned, or altogether stayed. But God did speedily provide for it, having raised a faithful Coacher representing himself, I mean David that great Prophet and king, who having conquered and afterward prepared Jerusalem, raised up to honour, and so far favoured of God as to be called his City, his House, his Rest, and having finally provided & disposed all the furniture of this Coach, repaired as it were all a-new, he left for successor the chief builder thereof, namely his son Solomon, who brought this excellent work unto an end with such direction, wisdom, and magnificence, that there was never seen among the Kings of this world the like thing, being in this respect the figure of the true Solomon, King of peace, and Lord and eternal Son of David. Lo these ⟨p. 383⟩are the pictures of the in-side of this Coach of which the Spouse speaketh in this place, as being engraven and carved in the inside thereof.