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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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And here every ones merits are proposed and their particular commissions of healing this or that disease. And whereupon I pray you are all these Intercessions grounded? Not upon any word of God, not upon any example of the Prophets, or Apostles, or any other of their time: not upon reason, seeing this cannot be done but we must attribute unto these Intercessors, that which is entirely proper and belonging unto the divinity and Godhead alone, without which Jesus Christ himself should be il & in vain called upon as we have before showed: all this notwithstanding, this hath by little and little slipped into the Church by the efficacy of that spirit of error which they used who resisted Jeremiah, keeping themselves to their queen of heaven, Jer. 44.17. as they of whom we now speak hold themselves to theirs. And what I pray you hath brought in ⟨p. 428⟩this cursed overthrow of the true invocation of God in Christendom but the distrustfulness of the favour and good will of our Mediator towards us? And yet what shall we find either in heaven or in earth which hath given us or could ever give us such assured testimonies of his love and dilection? For we cannot so much as pray as we ought, without he do first prevent us by his holy spirit, Rom. 8.25. so far is it that there can be any more prompt and ready then he to help us. Now no prayer proceeding from distrust, or from our only imagination, be it forged anew or retained by an evil custom, can be acceptable unto God, Jam. 1.6. and Joh. 4.22. and therefore above all things is this holy assurance upon the only truth, love and power of the only mediator recommended unto us, Heb. 10.19. 1. Joh. 2.1. bereaving us by consequent of all presumption of ourselves. Why but, say they, we pray one for an other, and do also crave the prayers one of an other without any derogation at all unto the authority or office of Jesus Christ who is our sole mediator: true, we use the mutual prayers of one an other as being environed all of us with the like necessities, to the mutual participation of which, charity doth bind us, & which we may and ought to cause to be understood of one an other, according to the word of God and the examples of the holy Prophets and Apostles.