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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 30: THE XXX SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in the th…
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as we see how Elisha by Revelation of Prophetical spirit, knew and saw and heard in his absence, what his servant Gehezi said and did with Naaman the Syrian, 2. King. 5.26. And it seemeth that the like may be said of Saint Peter in that which he discovered of Ananias & Sapphira, Act. 5.4. And thereupon they say, that if God vouchsafed his servants this grace, remaining yet here below in the infirmity of their flesh, ⟨p. 407⟩how should he not bestow much greater upon them now when they are with him in glory? And thus you see how the peoples eyes be at this day bleared, being not able to consider that this whole reply is grounded upon an imaginary & fantastical presupposal. For as touching the means it pleaseth God to use here below for the edification and preservation of his Church, his word assureth it us not only in general but also in special by the whole course of the sacred history: namely that it pleaseth him to use the ministry of men as an ordinary means and of Angels themselves by visions and commissions extraordinary. And therefore it pleased him during the ABC of the law, as the Apostle speaketh unto the Galatians, Gal. 4. to reveal unto his servants not only that which was said and done here & there, but also things to come so far as he would use them in their charge & vocation: but not that he ever gave them simply to know or understand either thoughts or all things present done & said in their absence, but only them & so far as he would employ them. And so it is that that excellent prophet Elisha speaketh, 2. Ki. 4.29. which thing we see to have happened unto Nathan who was constrained, for going too far, to unsay that which he had said, 2. Sam. 7.3.5. And when Elijah thought that all was lost in Israel, did he not show that God revealed him not all things? 1. King. 19.10.18. But if we speak of the heavenly government, in what place of Scripture, by what example of sacred history, shall we find this imaginary commerce & dealing of the living, with the spirits of the saints departed this world, having finished their course? For as touching the blessed Angels, we are taught that their charge hath bin and so continueth still, to be sent and employed for those effects and purposes it pleaseth God: