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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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that he should come forth of Jerusalem, that is to say that he should there be borne, in respect of the quality of his celestial kingdom, which consisteth in the setting up and government of his Church, as it came to pass by express commandment, Act. 1.4.12. This exposition, besides the foundation which it hath, serveth unto great edification, ⟨p. 431⟩this coronation and this Crown being diversely considered: inasmuch as Jerusalem a figure of the Church in her estate here below is sometimes restricted unto the elect, and sometimes also comprehendeth all those who say they are of this company, of which notwithstanding some of them are not known, as S. Paul before his conversion was among the Pharisees, others are like darnel among the good corn until such time as God thresh it out. This is then the cause wherefore the true spouse desiring, according as this spiritual marriage implieth it, that all the world if it might be were joined with her in one body under this head and Bridegroom, inviteth the other Daughters of Jerusalem, to come in good earnest and not for fashion sake or outward appearance and profession only, to contemplate the true king of peace in this royal majesty of his, wherewith their common mother, to wit Jerusalem, had crowned him, I mean so far as that earthly Solomon was the figure of this true king and Bridegroom, & not that the majesty of this Solomon proceedeth from his spouse, but from the eternal father, as also by a correspondence the coronation of the terrestrial Solomon celebrated by those of Jerusalem, proceeded not of them of the City but from the ordinance and commandment of David, which the city accepted of. But it may be together with this, that the holy ghost speaking by the mouth of the spouse to the disloyal of Jerusalem in particular, would in this place upbraid them the same with which S. Peter did, Act. 2.23.24. & 3.13.14. & Saint Stephen, Act. 7.52. conformably unto that which was foretold, Zach. 12.10. and