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

2 But these words of the king crowned, leading us again unto it, and for that this point can never be too oft declared and handled, we will enter again most willingly into it. In sum therefore I say that a man could not more openly have encroached upon this royalty and prerogative of his, then by ordering the estate of the house of this king besides and contrary unto his express will, in eclipsing of some of his laws, and establishing of others altogether anew: and as for such as were ordinary, retained for the ordering of the government established by the sovereign prince (to wit by the Son Heb. 1.2. ⟨p. 420⟩and 3.6. and Apocal. 13.17.) in cutting & clipping them at his pleasure, not suffering himself to be reprehended of any man, to dispense, to bind, to lose against all law of God & man. As for his prophetical sovereign authority, by the spirit of whom all the ancient prophets spake, 1. Pet. 1.11. & who afterward himself in person declared all the will of God his father, without keeping back any thing thereof, Joh. 15.15. and hath since his ascending up into heaven until he return not to teach, but to judge, continued to declare the same unto the world by his faithful Apostles enlightened with a particular virtue and power of the holy ghost, Joh. 16.3. Act. 20.27. Gal. 1.8. Eph. 4.11. 1. Pet. 1.12. How could a man degrade Jesus Christ of this dignity more openly then by falsifying of all that which he preached both by adding to & clipping from, & by turning white into black, and light into darkness, as is in