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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

the lillies 17 Vntil the wind of that day come and the shadowes flee awaie returne my beloued and bee like a young Roe or Hind-calfe vpon the mountaines of separation the cleftes of the mountaines 1 The vineyard of the Bridegroome in daunger to be wasted by the foxes 2 Examples of these wastes made both in the Church of the Israelites as also in that of the Christians 3 Howe these become at the length Wolues and Lyons destroieng the flockes and finally not sparing themselues 4 Examples of foxes broken in into the midst of the vineyard begunne to be husbanded in our time 5 The hunting of these foxes properly and directly committed vnto the Pastors of the Church 6 Secondlie to the faithful magistrats without confounding notwithstanding the Ecclesiasticall ministerie with ciuill Iurisdiction 7 This vineyarde must continue alwaies safe in the end and the foxes must be taken 8 How inestimable and for euer assured that treasure of the Church is which she saith to be hers 9 This donatioÌ„ by reasoÌ„ of the marriage betweene the Bridegrome and the spouse is mutual and reciprocal 10 The Church of the Israelits and the Church of the Christians are one and the same spouse of the same Bridegroom and how we ought to vnderstand the shadowes of the auncient couenant 11 How we ought to vnderstaÌ„d that wind which rose with the light of the gospel 12 How it is to be vnderstoode that the Bridegroome returneth to his spouse seeing he neuer forsaketh her 13 What the craggy mountains are ouer which the spouse desireth her Bridegroome to come 14 An exhortation to practise this doctrine IT appeareth by these words which we haue to handle that the Doue is flowen vnto her Bridegroome at his call who hath gathered her with her companie as wee shal afterwardes see according vnto the purport also of the historie that finally al the tribes put themselues in subiection vnto the anointed of the Lord I meane vnto Dauid after vnto Salomon both which were figures of this true Bridegrome in this respect But to the end that the spouse should not imagine that this spring-time brought so perfect a peace as that nothing should impaire and disturb it she is in good time warned that this vineyard hauing escaped the former storms and teÌ„pests was not for al that altogether freed froÌ„ al kind of hurt And this hee warneth her of not to affright or astonish her but so as to make her ful of consolation For he saith not there are foxes which wast and destroy our vineyardes but take vs those foxes as if he said Indeede there are great and little ones but I haue taken order they shal be caught Now to make our profit hereof wee must first of al learne that they abuse themselues much who are so persuaded to see the Church in so good case as to bee without her afflictions either within or without or both together within and without the experience of al ages sheweth vs the contrarie 2 Let vs therefore note heere in the first place that there is no mention heere of Tygers or Lyons which are open and declared persecutors of the church as were sometimes against Israell Edom Moab Ammon and finally the Chaldeans and Babylonians and in the time of the Christian Church the Romaine empire the Sarracens the Persians the Turcks but of those which are ctept into the midst of the vineyard like crafty Foxes to keep back and hinder the vintage which sort of beastes the vineyard were it neuer so well planted and husbanded neuer wanted Such were in the time of Moses Core Dathan and Abyron who as it is written Numbers 16. beeing in the very midst of this vineyard sought suttelly to vndermine the foundation thereof vnder colour saide they because the whole people were the people of the Eternall and hereupon pretending to ouerthrowe the ministery of Moses and Aaron Such were the false Prophets who lulled the people of Israell asleep vaunting of their visions from God against the true seruantes of the Eternal as is especially seen in that miscreant Sedechias opposing himselfe against Michea 1. King 22. and in Hananias against Ieremy Ier. 18. and by al the writinges of the Prophets vnto whom for the most part they alwaies lent an helping hand who should haue beene the principal hunters of those foxes to wit the Priestes as is witnessed throughout the whole sacred history And what foxes were the Pharisees Sadduces Scribes Essenians Herodians and others who so craftilie so sliely ventered to entrap the Lord himselfe of the vineyard beeing descended from heauen expresly for this purpose to take order for this vineyard and traueled so throughly herein that finally he thrust them out of possession of it and transplanted his vineyard as he had before threatned them he wold doe Mat. 21.41 and planted it among a people which before appertained nothing at al vnto vnto him as hee had menaced theÌ„ by Osee 2.23 the execution of which threat is most largely set downe Ephes 2.11 And afterwardes though the chiefe and principall hunters of these foxes trauailed diligently to transplant and to husband this vineyard which had spred her braunches from East to West and had prouided it of good laborers and husband-men after them notwithstanding their histories and their writings do witnesse that they had alwaies more to doe against such foxes as the great sheepeheard forewarned them Matth. 7.15 though there they be called rauening wolues then against all other open enemies within or without Such were they who woulde needes mingle Iesus Christ and Moses together whose most pestilent and pernicious error is declared and condemned Act. 15. against whom Saint Paul was yet afterwardes constrained so long and so eagerlie to fight After these succeeded as it were in great and mighty armies heretiques of al sortes some of them assayling the diuinity others the humanity of the Lord of this vineyard others confessing both the one and the other but diuiding Iesus Christ into twaine others making a monster of him which should bee neither God nor man others degrading him from his office others impugning other articles of our faith others blending with the truth of Christian religion a million of errors not onely vtterlie false but altogether monstrous 3 But aboue all others the foxes which haue succeeded certaine faithful auncient pastors of the Church of Rome haue vnder the coulour of the authoritie of the Cittie of Rome and because the Lord at the beginning caused the glory of his exceeding grace to shine foorth learned to plaie the part of a fox so sliely and so wilily that by little and little that which is a thing of al others exceeding straunge and wonderful helping to hunt other foxes they haue brought all vnder their pawes and then stripping themselues out of their foxes case but yet so as to slip it on againe when neede and occasion requireth haue taken vnto themselues the Lions skinne shewed their talants torne

eie vpon her not to forsake her 9 For example and proofe hereof let vs compare the time of the captiuity of Egypt of the greatest part vnder the Iudges vnder Saul vnder the ten tribes after their reuolt vnder a great part of the kings of Iuda vnder the captiuity of Babylon vnder which there was no apparant form of state either temporal or ecclesiasticall the time of the miseries and horrible disorders and confusions which happened vnder the empire of the Greekes and vnder the Romans vntill the totall destruction of the Temple and of the nation of the Iewes let vs I say but coÌ„pare these times with the outward estate of the Church vnder Moses Aaron Iosua Dauid Salomon so long as he continued wise Asa Iosaphat Ezechias Iosias Nehemias and other like kings and gouerners when there were any such and we shal neede no farther proofe of this which I haue said And therefore they are themselues deceiued and doe deceiue others which iudge of the church according vnto this outward and visible marke as if it were essential and perpetual beeing most commonly spoiled thereof and yet not leauing therefore to be knowen by them who haue had good eies to marke her natiue and essential inseparable beutie 10 Now to come to the christian Church this point is especially to be noted to wit that whereas the auncient church for the obscurity of the promises which were as it were the contract of this marriage waiting for the visible comming of the Bridegroome had need of these earthly material Iewels as being pledges witnesses of his coÌ„ming so the Bridegroome being come as this marriage also is spiritual and tendeth vnto a spirituall life hath made an ende of all this establishing the charges and callings of the officers of his house and of all his outward seruice after a most simple manner and fashion farre different from the former Retaining therefore the soueraign and eternall Priesthood vnto himselfe and likewise the regality in lieu of all the Leuitical Priesthood and other charges offices seruing thereunto he hath first of all set vp his spiritual Temple throughout the world which is the Christian church by his master builders I meane by his Apostles Prophets and Euangelists which being done he hath withal established for gouernours of this building vnto the end and consummation of the world Pastours and Doctours for the administration of the woorde and of the Sacraments likewise Elders for the inspection and ouer-sight of manners and other Ecclesiasticall censures and finally Deacons for the administring dispensing of the Church-almes and other reliefes of the poore and hath also ordained but two Sacramentes common vnto the whole Church and perpetual the most simplest that possiblie might be whether we consider the matter or whether we respect the forme administring of them al this fearing least wee should stay our selues on earthly things to seek after our saluatioÌ„ in them or any holines besides And therfore was the Christian Church then in hir glosse and beutifull hew when this simplicitie was diligently obserued therein and maintained as it was in the time of the Apostles vnder whom verilie she florished in this natiue and ingenuous beuty both inward and outward which Esay describeth vnto vs 54 and 60. But alas we may well say that this glittering glosse of hirs was but as a lightening which passeth from East to West and is soone vanished away and gone as the Lorde himselfe foretolde it would be Mat. 24.27 and Luk. 17.24 For behold alreadie euen in the Apostles time they of the Circumcision could not abide the taking awaie of the Iudaicall Ceremonies which had bin sometime the decking setting forth of this spouse but had an end at the comming of the bridegroome in person Others began then to mingle vnder the shadow of deuotion their goodly friuolous and altogither superstitious inuentions others not considering that they went about to bee more wise then god himselfe insteed of contenting themselues with this natiue and ingenuous beutie added thereunto the painting of their owne goodly humane wisedome And albeit the Apostle hath so often and so diuersly cried out against all such inuentions and namely by a most singular diuine and cleare distinct setting downe of all these abuses Coloss 2.16 and the verses following yet could he not hinder that this should not come to passe Hereupon is entered into the Church the most part of Ceremonies manifestly and notoriously taken from Iudaisme as namely holy water priestly vestments lights decking of materiall temples shining and glittering with gold and siluer and precious stones without sparing of all maner costly apparell brauerie that might be Afterwards the simplicity of administring the Sacraments seemed ouer light therfore there must be added to the consecration of the water chrisme salt spettle chreme c. As for the sacrament of the Supper it was in the end cleane taken away abolished by Transsubstantiation by a reall and expiatory offering and oblation which men haue inuented Besides al this this goodly humane wisedome hath had that credit a long time to modell and paterne forth ecclesiastical charges after the Romane policy to the ende to fulfill and accomplish that which was foretold by Saint Iohn in the Apocalyps of the Image of the beast From hence insteede of an Aristocraticall order of Bishoppes that is to say Pastours are come * the dignities of Patriarcks and others and last of all two Popes or Oecumenicall Bishops the one in the East whose wings Mahomet hath clipped and the other in the West seated the one and the other vpon the seuen hils and especially hee of the West who doth yet make dronke the Kings and Nations of the earth assisted with his breethren officers of the latest and newest forge called Cardinals I let passe so many superstitions at which a man may presuppose that Sathan himselfe laugheth All this notwithstanding if a man wil beleeue our aduersaries behold the beutie of the Christian Church yea verily if a shamelesse thing painted and diapred by her louers may be this chast and modest spouse of Iesus Christ which hath neither within her nor vpon her any thing saue that which it hath pleased hir Bridegrome to giue hir which coÌ„tenteth hirselfe altogither with the garmentes which the true and faithful woorkmen of the Lorde I meane his Apostles haue cut forth and fitted for her The more then the Church is decked after the Apostolicke fashion the more faire shee is whatsoeuer the minians and bawdes of the false painted Church say to the contrary And if the poore auncient Church brought in here by the holy ghost hath had iust occasion of complaining that shee was as it were disfigured by them either which plucked from her the outward ornaments shee receiued of hir Bridegroome or which loaded and disguised hir with prophane trimmings tifflings vp of her which darckened and obscured hir shining beuty according as the Prophets in

the King both of them good and certaine witnesses one vnto the other a doctrine of all others especiall and necessary For first seeing eternall life consisteth in the knowledge of the father in his sonne whom he hath giuen vs Ioh. 17.3 Satan ceaseth not to present vnto the world counterfeit Iesusses Matth. 24.5 so by consequent false Churches there is nothing more necessarie then throughly to know and take marks of the true Iesus Christ and his true spouse Secondly there are not a few men who care neither for Iesus Christ nor the Church as they ought to care for and esteeme them because they do not thoroughly know of what valew the one and the other is in such sort that such maner of people are easily enticed an other way by the vaine appearance of the world dazeling them some after one sort others after an other 1. Cor. 7.31 besides that this King and this Queene considered with the eies of flesh seem so foule and euill fauoured men are loth to come too near them so farre are they from being willing to keepe themselues vnto them Esay 53.2.3 1. Cor. 4.9.13 And therefore it is not without cause that Psal 45.14 it is said that this beauty is within which thing we are diligently and particularly to consider Let vs therefore consider first the person which speaketh then to whom she speaketh and afterward how and whereof shee speaketh to the end we may make our profit the better by it For this was not written for one day but that this voice should ring night day in our eares pearcing euen vnto the diuision of the soule and of the spirite Heb. 4.12 It is therefore the spouse which speaketh and which ought to be heard of vs vnder pain of beeing reckoned accounted among profane persons and publicanes Math. 18.17 Luke 10.16 2 But because this authoritie of the true Church hath serued Satans turne at all times in transferring it vnto the false we must therefore withall consider what this true spouse is to take heede the better of her which boroweth her name It is therefore she not which entiseth men vnto her selfe as harlots doe but inciteth them to contemplate her Bridegrome yea and that crowned as anon by Gods grace wee will handle 3 She speaketh vnto the daughters of Syon that is to say vnto them whom God hath vouchsafed this fauour to send vnto theÌ„ the message of saluatioÌ„ whether they receiue it as they ought to become as it were members of this spouse who calleth theÌ„ which is the assembly and mysticall bodie of the beleeuing or whether they make themselues vnworthy of the grace which God offereth theÌ„ This is signified vnto vs in the parable of the baÌ„quet Luk. 14.14 in which we must note that which is there said that all they who were inuited began with one accord to excuse themselues though they tooke diuerse excuses to shew vs that there is also aswell a false Catholique Church that is to say a Church generall agreeing in that which is ill though they be diuided in opinions as there is one true and only Catholike Church hearkening vnto with one accord this only true bridegrome And this is the cause why I saide before that there are two sortes of daughters of Syon so called because the terrestriall Ierusalem was the mother Cittie of the people of God The one sort therefore were as it were the waiting gentle-women of this spouse to enter in after her by order and together in companie vnto the marriadge banquet as it is saide Ps 45.15 The other were in the church but not of the church being there as it were only to behold what was done there or otherwise to doe their owne busines of which sort I would to God we saw not so many of the like examples amongest vs. 4 Now to come vnto the third point namely the better to vnderstand of whom and how this spouse speaketh we must especially waigh consider her wordes Come forth saith she And how so For if Syon be the habitation of the Church why should a man come forth of it to behold the King who notwithstanding hath there chosen himselfe his habitation Psal 87.2 132.15 I answere that this serueth not but for a sharper condemnation to be corporally in Syon if our affection be not there also and that to haue our affection there is to goe forth of our selues to say with the Apostle Gal. 2.20 I liue howbeit no longer I but Christ liueth in me 5 Moreouer when as Ierusalem it selfe is for the most part polluted and defiled the king is in this respect driuen forth and chased thence a man must go forth if he will contemplate him as in deede this King went forth and hath raunsomed and redeemed vs being crucified without the terrestriall IerusaleÌ„ where we must also go forth after him as the Apostle warneth vs Heb. 13.12 So this is then an other reason why we should goe forth whereof the spouse in this place speaketh and this pollution is shewed vs by many examples Pilate was within Ierusalem as was also Herode and yet so farre were they from knowing of Iesus Christ though he were before their eies together with the iustice of his cause that contrariwise the one condeÌ„ned him against his own conscience the other sent him away with ignominie Yea the very troupes and companies who the day of his entrance cryed so loud Hosanna ceased not to cry the friday following away with him away with him crucifie him It is not therefore without cause that it is saide vnto the daughters of Syon that they must come forth to contemplate this King crowned And we haue at this day more neede then euer of this aduertisement the same belonging properly vnto vs which was saide vnto this spouse her selfe Psal 45.11 who now teacheth her daughters the same lesson Forget thy people and thy fathers house as we are also bidden to doe Luk. 14.26 And in what state was Syon then when Babylon had planted her banners in the very middest of Syon as it hapned to the people when Bethel was turned into Bethauen that is to say the house of God into the house of iniquitie according vnto that which was foretold by Dauid Psal 118.22 by Esay 28. by Ierem. 14.14 by Ezechiel in his whole 13. Chapter by Iesus Christ the master Matth. 23.38 hauing driuen and that at two sundry times out of the house of his father those whom he calleth theeues Luk. 19.46 together with the buiers sellers Ioh. 2.14 Math. 21.12 and who finally set fire in it left not a stone vpon a stone Math. 24.2 Now who can say that this visible company was then the true Church and not rather directly opposed vnto it And which therefore was not to be forsaken according vnto the commaundement of the Lord Math. 15.14 To depart with the Eagles thither where the dead body was Luk. 17.37 Now that the like

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