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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 29: THE XXIX SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in the t…
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THAT which we have already learned as well of the matter as of the building and adorning of the Coach Royal, ought to cause us to acknowledge the excellency thereof. But yet we must confess that that which is within is a great deal more fair, I mean first of all this King, and afterward the Queen, the excellency of whom is painted forth unto us, namely that of the King by the mouth of the Queen, and that of the Queen by the mouth of the King, both of them good and certain witnesses one unto the other; a doctrine of all others especial and necessary. For first seeing eternal life consisteth in the knowledge of the father in his Son whom he hath given us, Joh. 17.3. & Satan ceaseth not to present unto the world counterfeit Jesusses, Matth. 24.5. & so by consequent false Churches, there is nothing more necessary then throughly to know and take marks of the true Jesus Christ, and his true spouse. Secondly there are not a few men who care neither for Jesus Christ nor the Church as they ought to care for and esteem them, because they do not thoroughly know of what value the one and the other is: in such sort that such manner of people are easily enticed an other way by the vain appearance of the world dazzling them some after one sort, others after an other, 1. Cor. 7.31. besides that this King and this Queen considered with the eyes of flesh seem so foul and evil favoured, men are loth to come too near them, so far are they from being willing to keep themselves unto them, Isaiah. 53.2.3. & 1. Cor. 4.9.13. And therefore it is not without cause that Psal. 45.14. it is said, that this beauty is within, ⟨p. 388⟩which thing we are diligently and particularly to consider. Let us therefore consider first the person which speaketh, then to whom she speaketh, and afterward how and whereof she speaketh, to the end we may make our profit the better by it. For this was not written for one day, but that this voice should ring night & day in our ears, piercing even unto the division of the soul and of the spirit: