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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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13 We know well enough what this word of king importeth, namely a sovereign power over his subjects ordered with reason. And thus it is, that it is taken in this place, but yet with the differences which are between this king and all others ⟨p. 399⟩which have bin, are, or shall be ever in the world. All the other kings therefore except this, are in such sort sovereign over their subjects, that their countries are limited, the time of their dominion bounded, their power reacheth no farther then the body and goods, and all this with a charge and condition to yield an account one day to him on high, who hath established them in their thrones here below. But this king, to the knowing and contemplating of whom we are in this place invited, hath all power in heaven and in earth, not only because he is god coeternal & coessential with his father, but also inasmuch as he is man, unto whom all government is given over all creatures be they high, middle, or low, Math. 20.18. Joh. 5.27.1. Cor. 15.27. Philip. 2.9. and that for all eternity Luk. 1.33. Isaiah. 9.6. And not only over the bodies, but over the souls also of his friends and true subjects to defend them unto the end of the world, Math. 28.20. And finally to make them really his coheirs in the everlasting kingdom, Rom. 8.17. Heb. 2.10. And likewise over his enemies in the middest of whom he reigneth, Psal. 110. Repressing them, chastising, destroying, according as he knoweth to be expedient for his glory and for the salvation of his, as the whole sacred history doth witness, waiting for his full victory and dominion which is promised him of the father,