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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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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 Coloss. 2.16. but only to change the day) but to the end that according ⟨p. 412⟩unto the ordinance of the Apostle which may be gathered evidently, 1. Cor. 16.2. and Apoc. 1. as the memory of the creation of the world in six days was celebrated in the sanctification of the seventh day (& that notwithstanding in the deliverance of Egypt, the order of the months and the beginning of the year were changed) so by the new creation of the second world, which the Prophets call a new heaven and a new earth, Isaiah. 61.17. and 66.22. appearing by the resurrection of the Lord, the true light of this new world ought to be renewed and celebrated the day which we call the Sunday, that is to say, the day of the Lord, after a special fashion, and such a one as distinguisheth this day from other in respect of the principal use: as in the time of the Apostles themselves this day was celebrated by a more special assembly of the faithful. But that the Christians should otherwise abstain from their work without it were for that time which was requisite for their assembly: this was never commanded nor observed, until that Christian Emperors made an ordinance for it: indeed most commendable, to the end we should not be otherwise distracted: to give our selves over the more to all holy things. But what? Al this is now become with them a very Judaism, in such sort that to open a shop window, or to give one blow with the hammer, is such a sin, as should raise an whole city in a commotion: but not to game, to go to the tavern, to play the whoremaster. For this is now grown into a custom. And as if the exercise of a Christian were to do nothing, under a colour of devotion, they could not content themselves with two and fifty sundays, but they must have so many holidays added, that almost the third part of the year is passed away in such idle festival days.