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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
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11 You see then what this evil is & what is the original cause thereof. But what remedy is there? To have recourse unto him ⟨p. 37⟩which hath made us, & who alone can make us anew, by the same power, which is his holy spirit, enlightening the eyes of our understanding: Ephes. 1.18. Act. 26.18. framing a clean heart within us, Psal. 51.12. creating in us both to will and to do. Phil. 2.13. in a word, making us from the head to the feet new creatures, 2. Cor. 5.17. that is to say, such as this spouse is set before us here to be, which is at large described unto us by Ezekiel, both in her first estate and condition, and also in this whereunto she is exalted, Ezech. 16. in such sort that rightly the Apostle calleth the Church the workmanship of God. 1. Cor. 9.1. yea of him alone in respect of the effect, 1. Cor. 3.7. and a work so long, and so hard and difficult, because of our rebellion, that the spirit of God cannot, as I may so say, come to the end thereof but with time, and by plucking us up as it were by a pulley. Which seeing it is so, let us consider what this perfect love and charity of ours ought to be towards God and our neighbour, the portraiture whereof, is set down in the two tables of the Law, and hath too in some sort been known & marked by a Painim, saying, (in speaking of the mutual friendship of men,) that true and perfect love and friendship is shown in this, that the one desireth that which the other desireth, and will not that which the other will not, which is as much to say, that he loveth that which the other loveth, and hateth that which the other hateth. This is an excellent rule to direct our whole life by, if we take the Law of God for the ground and foundation of that which we ought to love and to hate, and by consequent presuppose, that the will of the Bridegroom which is the head, whose will is declared in his Law, giveth a Law unto the will of the spouse, witness that which we crave every day in our prayer, saying, Thy will be done.