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

It was through your cryings that Pilate scourged him, that he crowned him with thorns, that he crucified him. You have denied him to be your king, and ⟨p. 432⟩have sought to put forth the title of his royalty, yea you mocked him on his cross, you shut up and sealed his sepulchre to hinder his victory, and yet lo he is a king maugre your despite, having vanquished all his enemies upon the Cross, even unto Satan, sin and death. Behold how he sitteth above every creature at the right hand of the father, and thence it is he shall come to condemn all his enemies, and to absolve those who are his for ever. There it is you shall see him unto your condemnation. Yea the sufferings which you caused him to endure were the way by which he is entered into his glory, Luc. 24.46. Behold I say in what sort this spouse might by a Prophetical spirit reproach the Daughters of Jerusalem. But besides all this to express yet more clearly this name of Mother, I say, that this which is here said of this coronation of Solomon by his Mother may be also referred unto that which is in his history, namely unto that, that the crowning of him came to pass by his Mother, inasmuch as she by the suggestion of Nathan put David in mind in good time of his promise which he had made of leaving the crown unto Solomon and not unto Adonias. Which being referred unto the true Solomon, we must attribute the crowning of him unto the heavenly father which is some-what referred unto the Mother in respect of him which was the figure of him: seeing in similitudes it is not necessary that all the parts thereof agree throughout.

It was through your cryinges that Pilate scourged him, that hee crowned him with thornes, that he crucified him. You haue denied him to bee your king, and ⟨p. 432⟩haue sought to put forth the title of his royalty, yea you mocked him on his crosse, you shut vp and sealed his sepulcher to hinder his victorie, and yet lo he is a king maugre your despite, hauing vanquished all his enemies vpon the Crosse, euen vnto Satan, sinne and death. Behold how he sitteth aboue euerie creature at the right hand of the father, and thence it is he shal come to condemne all his enemies, and to absolue those who are his for euer. There it is you shal see him vnto your condemnation. Yea the sufferinges which you caused him to endure were the waie by which hee is entred into his glorie,