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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE THIRD SERMON. Our help be in the name of God, &c.
THE THIRD SERMON. Our helpe be in the name of God, &c.
2 For thy dilections are better then wine.
1 That the whole contentment of the spouse or Bride proceedeth from this, that the Bridegroom hath loved her first. 2 The work of creation is the first testimony of Gods love & dilection towards man. 3 The work of redemption is a more admirable testimony of this dilection, but is particularly belonging unto the spouse. 4 The testimony of this love is declared unto us in the holy Scriptures. 5 In what sense these dilections are preferred before wine, and why the spouse useth this word in the plural number. 6 The mutual and interchangeable dilection or love which is dew unto the Bridegroom, is the sum of the Law. And the principal abuses which are committed in dilection or love, and in hatred. 7 That God alone ought properly to be loved. 8 That knowledge must go before love, and how man before his fall knew and loved God. 9 Whether Adam and Eve had the knowledge of evil, thereby to have hated it, before their fall. 10 Men before they be regenerate, cannot, nor will not learn to love or hate aright. 11 The only spirit of God, which created us, teacheth the spouse this lesson, but yet not without resistance. 12 The marvellous combat of the Bridegroom for his Bride. 13 The war of the spirit against the flesh is not by and by ended. 14 How we ought to love one another, and the other creatures. 15 The hatred of us against the devil ought to be irreconcilable. 16 How we ought to hate the wicked. 17 Abuse in hating the creatures which are made for our use. 18 A conclusion of the treatise of orderly dilection and hatred.