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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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I say contrariwise (setting a part that which God can do, and which he hath extraordinarily done in some, when it seemed good unto him to do this miracle) that two outward senses of ours are thereunto not only profitable, but ordinarily altogether necessary, to wit the hearing especially, and after that the eyes: not that we see or hear this King in person, but because that by this means he informeth our understanding to contemplate and to know him. For if he be known and conceived by faith, and faith is bred in us by the hearing of the word, by the which he manifesteth himself unto us, Rom 10.7 it followeth necessarily that it is in the word of this king that we must seek after him and know him, who and what he is. And consequently if faith be a virtue which hath his seat in the understanding, being there created by the virtue of the holy Ghost, and afterward maintained and increased by the use of the visible sacraments, in which the understanding seeth and considereth that which is signified and presented unto it▪ it followeth that this apprehension and consideration or contemplation be spiritual and not corporal, although the understanding be informed by that which it heareth in the word and seeth in the sacraments. For if it were otherwise, what should the faith of the fathers be, who went before his coming in the flesh, who notwithstanding did so throughly contemplate him, that under other sacraments they did eat the same meat, and drank the same drink with us, being made partakers of this true king Solomon, without whom there is neither faith nor eternal life, 1. Cor. 10.3.4. So did our father Abraham see him in the circumcision, which ⟨p. 393⟩was unto him a sign and seal of his justification by faith, Rom. 4.11. because he embraced the word when he was yet uncircumcised, Rom. 4.3.10. So did the holy fathers see him & embrace him both in the promises heard and received by faith, Heb. 11. and in the shadows of the ceremonial Law, of which this true Solomon was the substance,