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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 31: THE XXXI. SERMON. Our help be in the name of God &c. It is written as followeth in the…
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Forsooth to make all this available, and to send you into the fire of Purgatory for a certain time, whereas otherwise you should have gone into hell fire for ever. And yet, when it so pleaseth the merchant royal of Pardons, he doth more then Jesus Christ himself. For he absolveth à culpa & pana, that is quitteth both the sin and punishment thereof, and commandeth the Angels to draw what souls it pleaseth him out of Purgatory. And is there any thing he can do more contrary unto the effect of that oblation which Jesus Christ himself hath made of himself ⟨p. 424⟩upon the cross? Yea the spirit of lying, by the just judgement of God hath passed yet farther upon those which have loved and do still love darkness better then light, Joh. 3.19. according unto the Prophecy of Isaiah, Isaiah. 29.10. and that of the Apostle, 2. Thess. 2.11. and 2. Tim. 3.13. For he hath so controlled and countermanded the oblation once made for all by Jesus Christ himself, that he hath borne men in hand and persuaded them, that they must every day really and actually reiterate the same: and whereas the holy supper of the Lord was properly and peculiarly ordained and established, that we should be made partakers more and more of that mystical union of Jesus Christ together with all his merits unto eternal salvation, 1. Cor. 10.16. and secondly to celebrate in solemn wise the memory of his holy and only sacrifice once for all made with solemn thanksgiving, they have converted the same into a daily sacrifice actual and real of the very and true body of Jesus Christ unto God his father, by an High-priest anointed and shaven to this end and purpose, and that with a greater efficacy then the first, which Jesus Christ that perfect and only Priest & sacrificer of himself, made upon the cross: seeing that according unto their own saying, this of his reserveth still the satisfactory pain, but this which is made by their priests maketh an entire satisfaction, yea say they both for the quick & the dead. And this is it which they call their Mass, the which is so rooted in the hearts of the abused and abusers, that there was never a more execrable blasphemy in the world, nor more directly contrary unto the priesthood and sacrifice of the Lord, nor more stubbornly and cruelly maintained and defended.