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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8 To go on, although the spouse speak not here of kissing, but of being kissed; notwithstanding, whereas the one cannot be done without the other, we must know that it is our duty also to kiss the Bridegroom: but we must kiss in being our selves kissed, otherwise our kisses would be foul and unclean, ⟨p. 23⟩if they either should begin, or end in our selves, as are all the worshippings & services of God, which come out of the forge of mens brains, Isaiah 29.13. yea all those moral and philosophical virtues which proceed from else-where, than from the spirit of regeneration. Rom. 4.2. Phil. 3.8. seeing, which more is, even the kisses of the Bride, kissed by her Bridegroom, though they be reciprocal, are notwithstanding very unequal in quality unto those of her Bridegroom. For the kisses of the spouse are of no value in themselves, and that it pleaseth the Bridegroom to approve and like of them, proceedeth of his only favour and grace.
8 To go on, although the spouse speake not here of kissing, but of being kissed; notwithstanding, whereas the one cannot be done without the other, we must know that it is our duety also to kisse the Bridegroome: but wee must kisse in being our selues kissed, otherwise our kisses would be foul and vncleane, ⟨p. 23⟩if they either should begin, or ende in our selues, as are all the worshippings & seruices of God, which come out of the forge of mens braynes, Esay 29.13. yea all those morall and philosophicall vertues which proceede from else-where, than from the spirit of regeneratiō. Rom. 4.2. Phil. 3.8. seeing, which more is, euen the kisses of the Bride, kissed by hir Bridegrome, though they be reciprocal, are notwithstanding very vnequal in quality vnto those of hir Bridegrome. For the kisses of the spouse are of no valewe in themselues, and that it pleaseth the Bridegrome to approue and like of them, proceedeth of his onely fauour and grace.