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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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8 As for the commandment which concerneth thefts, it were wonder a man would say it might be maintained by them, who live not but by sacrilege, to wit, with the goods belonging unto the poor, of which they make themselves the receivers without yielding any account.
8 As for the commaundement which concerneth theftes, it were wonder a man woulde say it might bee maintained by them, who liue not but by sacrilege, to wit, with the goods belonging vnto the poore, of which they make themselues the receiuers without yeelding any account.
9 I say the like of the last commandment save one, speaking of false witness, being in no point more damnably violated then in the overthrowing of the witnessings and testimonies of the Prophets and Apostles irreprovable witnesses. Finally ⟨p. 415⟩the last commandment passing even unto the root of the evil which is in us, and without the which the Apostle witnesseth that he had never known in deed what sin meant, Rom. 7.7. is it not as much or more openly violated then any of the rest by their doctrine, when they teach that neither the understanding nor the will of man are wholly and entirely subjected unto sin and death by original sin: but that there still remaineth a certain disposition and inclination unto that which is true and good: whence they draw their merits of congruity & preparation? Afterwards when they teach that by the very action of baptism, yea by the virtue of the water, original sin is (if not altogether) yet in part so done away, that the child of a Turk or Jew being baptized & dying before the age of discretion goeth into paradise, and as for those who come unto age, that that corruption which resteth in them is not sin, but only a little spark of fire under the hot ashes to exercise us.
9 I say the like of the last commaundement saue one, speaking of false witnes, being in no point more damnably violated then in the ouerthrowing of the witnessings and testimonies of the Prophets and Apostles irreproueable witnesses. Finally