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A09998	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 ...; Sermons sur les trois premiers chapitres du Cantique des cantiques. English	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Harmar, John, 1555?-1613.	1587 (1587)	STC 2025; ESTC S101752	345,082	450

must be serued in euery place with lifting vp of pure handes 1. Tim. 2.8 but this is to teach men to set all thinges whatsoeuer without exception after the dewty which they owe vnto the Lorde whose promise is most liberall bountifull vnto them who forsake for his sake houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands possessions howe euer the worlde take and account them for fooles and franticke 7 Neither serueth this lesson to teach vs onely that it is enough to depart out of those places where superstitiō or some what worse then that is For it is to little purpose to chaunge our place if we chaunge not our old skinne and if being come to another place to serue God better and with more freedome then before we shew it not indeede and effect when wee are come thither Which falleth not so truly out in al as I must say it to my great griefe beeing but too too manie found who in steede of changing themselues and their manners or profiting themselues better when they are come hither amongst vs become worse then before so that being nothing else but an offence and stumbling block vnto others it were better both for vs and them they had either neuer come here or had returned strait way thither againe from whence they came 8 And as this doctrine serueth not to this purpose so neyther tendeth it to the fauoring of these hypocriticall Moonkes who boast and brag they haue forsaken the woorlde because they would faine be reckned among the number of them who haue left and forsaken al things for Christs sake which thing I shall then confesse to bee true when they shal haue proued Iesus Christ to be the patron and founder of their order and that to enter into a monasterie there to liue at the cost and charges of another and some of them to bee chaunged into wild asses others to get them fat paunches others to grow vppe to miters and cardinals hattes others to be the props and arch-pillers of falshoode and error such as these of the latter crue are who cal themselues Capuchins Iesuits false vsurpers of the name of Iesus others to be sauiours and meriters for themselues and for others who hire them for their imaginarie workes in such sort as to heare them speake it should seeme that God oweth them somewhat vpon a reckning when they haue past a clear account with him when I say they shal haue shewed that this doctrine is Propheticall and Apostolicall I wil then confesse their saying to be true and not before no displeasure to one of the ancient fathers a man otherwise endued with most excellent gifts who neuer heard of such not monks but monkeis as they afterward became to bee but so bewitched notwithstanding with the opinion of a monastical and solitarie life as that he sticked not to giue one this counsell to runne ouer the verie belly of his owne father to enter into a monasterie so blinde was the world euen in those daies 9 In a word therefore the first point of returning vnto the Church of God is a resolution of quitting and forsaking the false Church without any either chaffering and merchandizing or looking behinde vs as we are warned Luke 9.62 Phil. 3.13 as this spouse also is expresly warned to forget her owne people and her fathers house before the King can take pleasure in her beautie Psal 45.11 And this is a point which they aboue all others ought well to thinke vpon who at this day when this point is handled and debated among vs mince out their way on both sides thinking to agree fire and water together calling them transformers of the Church who would reforme it exactly according vnto the paterne of the woorde of God men a great deale more daungerous then those who declare themselues vtter enimies of the truth 10 But because to goe out of a bad way to enter into an other as bad or els worse doth litle better the case of him who is wandred therefore the spouse is here warned in going out of the ill way to followe the tracke of the flocke that is to saie of this true flock of sheep with whom they are to ioyne themselues For the vnderstanding and practise of which lesson we are to note that there is a difference betweene the opening of a new way and the acknowledging of a way made long since but for lacke of vsing and frequenting growen wast and desolate The question being therefore in this place not of taking or making a newe way as if the Church had then tooke her beginning but of finding againe the true way laid in some sort wast desert for this cause the spouse is sent backe as it were to finde the trackes and footings of the olde way And this is it which the Prophets themselues haue preached amidst the desolations of the Church in their times sending backe such as are wandered and gone astray vnto the Law and vnto the testimonie Esai 8.20 and elsewhere as Abraham also speaketh Luk. 16.29 They haue saith hee Moses and the Prophets let them heare them whereunto agreeth that of Saint Peter 2. Pet. 1.20 not forgetting the woordes of his maister who directed those which were blind knew him not vnto the Scriptures Sound ye saith he and search the Scriptures for they are they which speak of me Ioh. 5.39 yea although then when the Lord spake thus the track and footing of the true sheepe of the former time was so cleane put foorth amongest those who called themselues the people of God that there needed miracles and other extraordinary meanes to make it knowen vnto the seely wandering sheepe Mat. 9.36 11 Therefore when our aduersaries would serue their turn with this place to teach vs that without al distinctiō or exception we must keep vs vnto the way of the fathers we must put them in mind of this word of Flock namely of the true flocke of the true sheep For there are two sorts of fathers The one seducers seduced of whom the lord complaining in Ieremy they haue forsakē saith he my law which I set before thē haue not hearkened vnto my voice neither walked thereafter but haue followed their own harts lust the Baalims which their fathers taught them Ier. 9.13 and 14 and in Ezechiel 20.24 their eyes are gone after the moulten gods of their fathers Such are the fathers from which wee must turne that wee perish not with them not deseruing the name of auncetors that is to saie of such sheepe as hear and folow the voice of their sheepheard Ioh. 10.27 But as for true fathers that is to saie true auncetours those are they indeede whose track and footing we must know that we turne not therefrom neither to the right hand nor to the left As for example There are in our time a great number of false sects religions which al saie they are

in that excellent Psal 119. and Psal 1.2 And herein committed Saint Peter a very great fault by and by after he had made that excellent confession of faith by reason whereof he was called Cephas that is a stone or rock when hee would needes bee medling in counsailing his maister for which cause hee was called Satan and had it said vnto him Goe behind me thou vnderstandest not the thinges of God but the things which are of men Afterwarde Iesus Christ addeth If anie man wil come after me let him renounce himselfe take vp his crosse and follow me And therefore to conclude if we wil be Christians we may not go before Iesus Christ but we must follow 9 The spouse addeth The king hauing brought vs into his priuy chambers we wil be cheerful merrie Declaring by these words that she is indeed the true Church cheering her selfe so greatly with that which notwithstanding yet shee sawe not but in part 1. Cor. 13.12 but holding herselfe so assured of the rest for which she hath so sure pleadges 2. Cor. 1.22 that it seemeth her she is as it were already placed in heauenly places Eph. 2.6 according to the example of the Prophet crying out Psal 84. O eternal God of hostes how are thy tabernacles to be desired as he also wisheth and longeth after them most feruently Ps 42. and reioyceth himselfe herein Psal 133. speaking of the shadowes the bodie and substaunce of which are in Iesus Christ The secret chambers therefore of him who is here called the king and is so indeede according to the ordinaunce of the father which no man can breake or infringe Psal 2.6 are first of all the reuelations of the secrets of God touching our saluation in Iesus Christ by the mouth of his Prophets which wee may call the porch or fore-chamber vnto the pallace of heauen into the which the Saintes and holy men beeing brought before the manifesting of the Lorde in fleshe haue seene and as it were saluted the promises a farre off Hebr. 11.13 looking in into the holie court thorough the vaile for the which vision and sight it is said by the Lord that Abraham reioysed Ioh. 8.56 So doth the spouse also in this place declaring notwithstanding that shee looketh for some better thing namely that which is called The great secret of piety and Godlines that her beloued would make himselfe to bee seene in flesh would be iustified in the spirit seene of Angels preached vnto the Gentiles beleeued on in the worlde and receiued into glory 1 Tim. 3.16 This was then the time when this spouse was brought in into the Cabinets and secret chambers of her beloued meaning thereby the more neere and plain opening of all the will of his heauenly father Ioh. 15.15 and himselfe being really exhibited In whom are ratified all the promises of saluation 2. Cor. 1.20 For which reason Esay calleth the Gospel the arme of God Esay 53.1 and Saint Paul saith that it is the power of God to saluation to all that beleeue Rom. 1.16 And therefore it is not without cause that Simeon holding our Sauiour in his armes receaued a most singular and vnspeakable contentment Luk. 2.29 and that our Lord said vnto the Apostles that they had a great aduantage aboue the auncient iust men and Prophets Math. 13.17 But yet notwithstanding wee see yet but as it were through a cloude and know not but in part 1 Cor. 13.12 not appearing as yet what we are which is differred vnto his later comming 1. Ioh. 3.2 We are therefore entred into the secret chambers but beholding as it were from behind the dore the glory of the Lord as it were in a glasse 2. Cor. 3.28 looking till hee bring vs into the innermost of these secret chambers which he is gone to prepare for vs Ioh. 14.3 to see him as hee is in his true kingdome and to bee eternally with him 1. Thess 3.17 to see that which eye neuer sawe to heare that which eare neuer hard and to know that which neuer ascended into the hart of man 1. Cor. 29. And thus you see what the cabinets secret chambers are and the true place called the holie of holies not earthly but heauenly vnto which euery faithful soule aspireth as vnto the place of their true euerlasting rest and their vnspeakable ioy euen to the Lord as here it is saide not only because that all this glory proceedeth of his onely grace but also because he is the last end therof the faithful desiring to be saued for no other cause but to glorifie him not staying so much on that which shall betide themselues to sing that goodly song vnto God with ful and perfect ioy Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the glory for thy goodnes and faithfulnes sake Psal 155. 10 It is not then without iust and great cause the which notwithstanding no man vnderstandeth but he which is born of the spirite and which hath his senses fashioned thereunto and purified to discerne rightly betwixt that which is good and that which is il Heb. 5.14 that this blessed company promiseth that she wil forget the wine that is to say al the most alluring delicacies of this life to take her whole pleasure in the meditation of the dilections of this her beloued vsing againe a woorde of the plurall number to signifie more expreslie the plenty and aboundance of that which God hath reserued in store for his as also before she made mention not of one cabinet and secret chamber but of secret chambers according to that which the beloued afterward said that there are many lodginges and chambers of abode for the elect in his fathers house Ioh. 14.2 and we maie not doubt but that by this word of Delicacies wee are to vnderstand not onelie that which is besides the necessitie which is required to the entertainment of this life according to the saying of the Apostle that hauing foode raiment we be therewith content seeing we brought nothing into this world nor shal carrie anie thing out of it 1. Tim. 6.7 but also that wee must goe so farre if we be true Christians that nothing be it of the highest middle or lowest quality no not our owne selues which we should not cast far from vs and to which we should not say I know thee not Deut. 33.9 so farre as it should turne vs neuer so little from that dutie which we owe vnto God And this is that which Iesus Christ signifieth by those formes of speaking of hating of father and mother for the loue of him Luk. 14.26 of cutting off the hand and the foote and putting out the eies Matth. 18.8 and not seeking to saueour life Mat. 16.25 For we may not vnderstand these speeches according to the letter after the manner of certain fantastical men so to become a murderer of a mans selfe nor after the maner of hipocriticall monks as if it were a woorke of perfection

condemne the Prophets Apostles other martyrs of the lord for madmē senseles But behold how wily satan is to diuide this body in peeces which can neuer bee ioined ynough togither vnited And indeed the end of such goodly priuate christians maketh vs at the last to know their faire domestical exercise they practise at home which wee neede not to maruell at seeing that euen those who are most diligent to frequēt the assemblies congregations where they are reproued admonished comforted taught stirred vp heated euery day leaue not for al that to be cold lazy negligent in their duety Let vs therefore note heere my bretheren in Gods name that the spouse protesteth she came with her Bridegroome not onely into the house but which is more into the Chamber of her Mother What shal we saie then of those who wil not set foote into this house and think to keep themselues without with Iesus Christ But yet it is not enough to bee in the house but we must enter into the priuy Chāber wardrob of this spouse For such a one may be in the house which is not in it and who entred not in but to come foorth straite waies againe But to enter into the chamber of this mother is to bee in the place of her rest and where she causeth her selfe to bee seene and heard nourishing there her children with the bread of life 12 Now sith our good God amiddest so manie tempestes which haue ouerwhelmed and destroied the woorld which haue within these few yeares borne and beaten downe so many goodly Churches the mother and her children beeing so cruelly driuen forth hath vouchsafed vs so great and singular a benefite to preserue vnto vs this little cabbin assaulted with so many wild cruel beasts shal we alwaies contemn so great a grace and blessing and so long a patience of his God forbid my bretheren but let vs beseech him hee woulde rather heate such as are a cold thrust forward those who recoile hasten the slow fortifie the weake and in generall giue vs the grace that his woorde may dwell plentifully among vs according vnto the exhortation of the Apostle Coloss 3.26 and that wee maie be faire and fruitfull trees in his courtes to depart from this house heere belowe vnto that euerlasting pallace where wee shall raigne eternallie with him wherein hauing hitherunto so notablie fayled let vs craue his grace and mercie as followeth Almighty God c. THE XXVI SERMON Our help be in the name of God c. It is written as followeth in the third Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles the 5.6.7 and 8. verses 5 I charge you ye daughters of Ierusalem by the Roes by the Hinds of the field if you wake waken not my Loue vntil he please 6 Who is shee that mounteth vp out of the desert like palmes of smoke perfumed with mirrh incēse with euery sort of perfume 7 Behold his bed which is Salomons about the which are threescore valiaunt men of the prowes of Israel 8 They all handle the sword are expert in warre euery one hauing his sworde vpon his thigh for the frights by night 1 The spouse is so authorized by her Bridegroome that none euer sette on her who had not the worst 2 This authoritie pertaineth nothing at al vnto the false Church 3 Wherefore this spouse is compared vnto a cloude resembling an high and a strait piller 4 What the desert or wildernesse is from which this piller commeth 5 We must come forth out of this desert not fal out of one desert into another 6 The deserts of the auncient monkes compared with the pallaces of these goodly fathers and false religions of our time 7 Wherefore the spouse is compared vnto a palme or date tree 8 What the excellent perfumes of this spouse are and whence they come 9 The spouse insteed of resting on the praises which are attributed vnto her how tru soeuer they be imploieth her self the rather to praise the Bridegrome to make him knowen vnto euerie one 10 What this bed was of Salomon the figure of this true Salomon who is full of peace 11 Howe safe this bed is where the true repose and rest is found 14 Wherefore Salomon speaketh here of threescore men of gard about his bed 13 Who are the true gard and defenders of the saluation of the faithful especiallie against all inuisible enemies 14 A conclusion touching the vse of this doctrine THE spouse trauelling painefullie to find her Bridegroome and hauing at the length found him seazed on him and brought him home to her Mother reioiceth nowe and is exceeding merrie and gladde of this happie estate and condition of hers charging those about her not to waken her Bridegroome not that hee sleepeth for hee that keepeth Israel doth neuer slumber nor sleepe Psalm 121.4 But because his rest is the rest of his spouse holding and keeping him in the priuie Chamber of her hart Rom. 5.1 and therefore knowing that this rest quiet is neuer without such as enuy it for whom they need seek no farther then in the midst of Ierusalem that is to say of them thēselues who wil brag vaūt that they are the principal members of the Church shee chargeth them here vnder the name of daughters of Ierusalem that with menaces threates that they presume not to trouble this rest of her Bridegrome with her as if she shuld say that she is able to make thē repent it if they be so bold as to do it But touching this rest this maner of charge we haue spokē aboue at large Chap. 2. vers 7. where the Bridegrome giueth the like charge that they trouble not the repose rest of his spouse therefore wee will refer our selues vnto that which hath bin said thereof but there is notwithstanding a particular consideration offered in this place For it seemeth the spouse speaketh very boldly such a charge beseeming rather the Bridegroom who hath al autority thē the spouse who ought to refer her whole garding and safe keeping vnto the Bridegrome I confesse indeede that the spouse speaketh here very loftily gallantly And why should she not For seeing she hath for her with her yea within her this great mighty king what is he that standeth against her whom she may not and ought not to defy We haue hereof infinit examples and those also ioyned with their effects Iosua commaundeth the Sunne to stand still and hee obeyeth Iosu 10.13 And wee know what the Lord promiseth vnto his Mat. 17.20 not to establish thereby the gift of dooing of miracles as perpetual in the Church but to shew that this spouse threatneth the perturbers of this peace which the Bridegrome giueth her seeing she hath in her hand his autority power can say that her Bridegrome is hers and therefore by consequent she may boast of the effects of this fellowship and society with