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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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6 Come forth therefore saith this Queen unto her daughters. But what to do? For it is an easy thing to go, nay to leap out of one mischief into another. And we see at this day (alas a most miserable case) where many forsake superstition to cast themselves headlong into impiety, and as it is said, Luk. 11.26. change one devil into seven others worse then he was.
6 Come foorth therefore saith this Queene vnto her daughters. But what to doe? For it is an easie thing to goe, naie to leap out of one mischiefe into another. And wee see at this daie (alas a most miserable case) where many forsake superstition to cast themselues headlong into impiety, and as it is said, Luk. 11.26. chaunge one diuel into seuen others worse then he was.
7 Behold therefore the reason why this Queen addeth, and contemplate the King Solomon. But we must know what it is to contemplate. It is not simply to look upon a thing, as at the entrances of kings every man getteth him up into a window, or goeth out into the street to see him pass by, and after that there is an end. But to contemplate is rather an action of the mind then of the eyes, when to take the thorough view of a thing & perfectly to know it, a man looketh round about it & peereth to the very bottom: which is said of S. Peter when he came unto the Sepulchre, and leaned his body down into it to see throughly whether the body of the Lord were there or no, Luk. 24.12. Yea but will some man say, when these things were written, the king figured by Solomon was not yet visible, seeing he had not yet put on him our flesh, & yet still at this day, having withdrawn himself so far from us shall not be seen until his latter coming. I confess all this, & I say farther that even so long as he was in this world truly visible and in sensible and palpable flesh, yea after his resurrection,