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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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And though we grant them all this time, to sanctify the name of God, be it on the sunday or on other holidays, or to celebrate the memory of great and holy personages (not to speak any thing of a great part of them which are in their calendars) what is it else with them but to blaspheme and to commit Idolatry, as all their divine service is notably patched up and clouted therewith?
And though wee graunt them al this time, to sanctifie the name of God, bee it on the sundaie or on other holydaies, or to celebrate the memorie of great and holie personages (not to speake anie thing of a great part of them which are in their calenders) what is it else with them but to blaspheme and to commit Idolatry, as all their diuine seruice is notably patched vp and clouted therewith?
5 As for the commandment of honouring of father and mother, under the name of whom is comprised all lawful superiority: dare they deny that the pharisaical traditions, by which the Lord declareth that this commandment was so shamelessly broken, is not the fetch they have used to snare within their net Duchies, Earldoms, & other Lordships? The foundation of their great towers & steeples, the pretence of the destruction of families by millions? If a man will not seek far after Antiquity, at least let the Gratis of these last comers, who attribute unto themselves the name of Jesus, common unto all true Christians, open the eyes of such as are blindest, who have gotten by their serviceable gratuities more goods and revenues, then a good part of all the hospitals in France have. And what shall we say of their exemptions from ordinary justice, of the superiority usurped by Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Curates over the Justice of kings, & especially by that goodly universal Bishop over Emperors, Kings, & Princes, so far is it that he payeth tribute unto whom tribute is due, according unto the example of Jesus Christ himself, & of him, whose successor notwithstanding he saith he is, not shaming to call a good part of Italy and the Capital City of the Roman Empire the patrimony of him who testifieth of himself that he had neither gold nor silver,