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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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3 As for the third commandment an oath being the true fealty and homage which the conscience oweth unto God his only Lord, not only as present, and knowing the things which are most secret & hid, but also as judge and revenger of all falsehood, the great & only living God being as it were set & placed in his throne to be made judge of the truth unknown unto men: can it be denied but there are so many felonies, so many idolatries, so many degradations of the true and only divinity, as there be oaths made by the creatures, high, middle, low, or by other fancies which men do forge & devise? For to swear is not only to take unto us a witness in general, as a man may do unto the very insensible creatures, Deut. 3.1. & Isaiah. 1.2. but it is to take him whom we swear by to be a witness of our conscience, which thing appertaineth unto god alone.
3 As for the third commandement an oth beeing the true fealty and homage which the conscience oweth vnto God his onely Lorde, not onely as present, and knowing the thinges which are most secret & hid, but also as iudge and reuenger of al falshood, the great & only liuing God being as it were set & placed in his throne to be made iudge of the truth vnknowne vnto men: can it bee denied but there are so many felonies, so many idolatries, so many degradations of the true and onely diuinity, as there be othes made by the creatures, high, middle, low, or by other fancies which men do forge & deuise? For to sweare is not only to take vnto vs a witnes in generall, as a man maie doe vnto the verie insensible creatures, Deut. 3.1. & Esaie. 1.2. but it is to take him whome wee sweare by to bee a witnes of our conscience, which thing appertaineth vnto god alone.
4 As for the fourth commandment, every christian ought to know that so far as it was ceremonial it hath an end, not that in lieu of the seventh day called the Sabbath, we should Judaize the Sunday (for this were not to impose an end unto the figures, by the real coming of the truth