Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles

1 How this King is degraded of all his degrees in the Apostatical Church of Rome at this day. 2 First of his dignity Royal. 3 Secondly of his state Prophetical. 4 Thirdly of his Priesthood. 5 A false distinction between venial and mortal sins. 6 An other false Doctrine touching the guilt of sin, & the punishment, & of the sins committed before and after Baptism. 7 Howe our sanctification is by their Doctrine falsified. 8 How the Intercession of one mediator alone is taken-away & abolished. 9 A conclusion of all this matter. 10 Who the mother is who hath crowned this King. 11 What the time of his fiansailes is. 12 Wherefore this day is called the day of the gladness of this King. 13 An exhortation to embrace the grace of this king, and to make it available unto us.

1 How this King is degraded of all his degrees in the Apostaticall Church of Rome at this daie. 2 First of his dignitie Royall. 3 Secondly of his state Propheticall. 4 Thirdly of his Priesthood. 5 A false distinction betweene venial and mortall sinnes. 6 An other false Doctrine touching the guilt of sinne, & the punishment, & of the sinnes committed before and after Baptisme. 7 Howe our sanctification is by their Doctrine falsified. 8 How the Intercession of one mediator alone is taken-awaie & abolished. 9 A conclusion of all this matter. 10 Who the mother is who hath crowned this King. 11 What the time of his fiansailes is. 12 Wherefore this day is called the day of the gladnesse of this King. 13 An exhortatiō to embrace the grace of this king, and to make it auaileable vnto vs.

WE have yet one point more to handle upon that which I began to show on Thursday last, to wit, how this king is spoiled at this day of his glory in that which is the principal part of his diadem royal, I mean touching that which concerneth the office of his mediatorship, witnessed by the Gospel called the power of God unto salvation unto every one that believeth, Rom. 1.16. and by Isaiah the Arm of the Lord, Isaiah. 53.1. A matter of so great consequence, that there cannot fall out any different or controversy among men, which is more nearer to be looked unto. I say then that this dignity or rather majesty of this king, mediator between God and his Church, consisteth in three points, namely in his royal dominion, spiritual, and sovereign in his kingdom, yea over sin it self and over death: afterwards in the office and charge which he received, to be the true, and to speak properly, the only Prophet and declarer of the counsel of God touching the salvation of mankind: and thirdly in his eternal priesthood. Now not any one of these three points remaineth in his entire in the Church of Rome at this day, which by consequent is nothing less then the true and only spouse of this king. Which thing we will endeavour to open & make plain unto you, howbeit summarily, because the same hath bin already handled at large by us upon the first chapter of this Canticle.