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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

of the world vnto the other Ps 2.8 lifting it selfe vp in the end aboue the heauens Ioh. 14.2 As also if we consider of euerie member of the church which are as it were so many persons placed and conducted in this Coch not one of thē can perish Ioh. 6.39 18.9 What do you then shall I say men or diuels who seek to ouerturn this Coch Who indeuor to hinder it in his course Nay who deuise by al meanes to pull it in peeces Alas poore caitifes it is of the wood of Liban which resisteth al assaults You doe nothing but runne your heads against the mountaine and are no wiser then your predecessors who are dashed in peeces and yet the mountain continueth still firme and stable This Coche resisteth iron and therefore wil turne the edge of your swordes The fire cannot consume it but purgeth it and maketh it more bright and glittering This Coch floteth vpon the water and neuer goeth so vnder but that it commeth vp againe vpon the water Neither can death or time set-tooth in it and howe can the earth consume vs seeing the graue doth nothing else but refine our bodies to bee afterwarde clad with incorruption 1. Cor. 15.42 Where shal then our place of refuge be in a time of so great so rough stormes In this Coch my breethren in this Coche vnder the wing and protection of the mightiest of mighties and no where else 7 The spouse hauing spoken of the matter of this Coche commeth vnto the Pillers which he saith are of siluer and made by this King Salomō And what are these Pillers els but such as God hath chosen and giuen to be the principal peeces of the Coche and whose ministery he vseth for maintaining and preseruing of it as the Pillars vnder-prop and stay vp the building I mean the Prophets and Apostles as the principall master-builders and as it were the hande of this king to put this Coche in readinesse as the Pastours and Doctors finding it ready made as we haue aboue declared are put in trust to maintaine and keepe it whole in al his parts and peeces 1. Cor. 12.28 Ephe. 41. And this is the cause why the Apostle saith that the Church is foundded vpon the Prophets and Apostles Ephe. 2.20 because the Apostles receiued this grace to haue ended that which the Prophets had as it were hewed out and squared as it is saide that the wall of the City descending from heauen had twelue foundations and in them the names of the twelue Apostles Apoc. 21.14 how is this but that yet at this day the true Church hath no other obiect of her faith then the doctrine taught by the faithfull Apostles of the Lord Ephes 3.12 But some man wil say is there then any more then one foundation of the church and the gouernment thereof No truely But there are moe laiers of the foundation but there is but one foundation only If we respect then the worke of euery foundation-laier we shal finde that there are so many foundations that is to say so many foundation works as there are foundation-laiers one working here an other there as in the restauration and building vp againe of the Cittie of the terrestriall Ierusalem euerie one wrought in his quarter but al was one and the same wall vpon the olde foundation Nehem. 2. and 3. Here we haue then the definition of the truely Catholicke Church namely that it is it for the building whereof euery Apostle hath built for his part by one the same doctrine founded vpon one sole foundation one and the same Church none of the builders beeing master aboue his felowe-builder although Nehemiah as Lieutenant of the king gouerned the whole as a faithfull magistrate ought to procure aboue al things that God raigne and beare rule in the midst of the people whom he hath cōmitted vnto his charge And therefore here was no principality which men haue falsly attributed giuen vnto S. Pet. but he wrought mightily as the others did in his charge and quarter In this sense therefore it is that we must vnderstand these twelue foundations and foundatiō-layers only we must take heed how we say that S. Paul who notwithstanding built more thē any other 1. Cor. 15.10 Barnabas were forgotten in the vision of S. Iohn For the whole book of the Apocalypse declareth that the forms there of speaking are applied fitted to the manner of the Iudaical common-weale in which because there were 12. tribes mention is made of 12. gates and 12. foundation-laiers only 8 And to the end that this may more clearely appeare in this allegoricall description let vs note that these Pillars haue two ends or extremes the one belowe the other aboue The base or lower end is sustained by the bottome of the Coche the top or vpper end by the vaut of the couering These pillars therefore are not they properly which hold and beare vp the couering but onely because themselues haue their bases and are sustained vpon the bottom And this is also the cause why it is said that they are of siluer but the bottome is of gold First because Iesus Christ is truely the only foundation stone 1. Cor. 3.11 Esa 28.16 sustaining and bearing vp the whole by his only force and power and therefore most rightly compared to the most fair precious firme mettall Secondly because it pleaseth him of his good will and not of any neede he hath of them to serue himselfe with these pillers of siluer in asmuch as hee hath giuen an efficacie vnto their ministery and doth yet sustaine at this day his Coche I meane the gathering together of his Saints by the vigor of his spirit which he laieth open in the heart of his Eph. 4.11.12 their writings beeing preached in all these places whither it pleaseth him to guide and conduct his Coche retaining alway this principle maxima that he which planteth he which watereth which are these pillers of siluer are nothing to wit beside the planting watering according vnto the force which is giuen them to plant to water but he is all in all who giueth the increase to wit the bottome and ground of gold to those who are well planted and watered vpon him 1. Cor. 3.7 9 The couering of this Coch saith the spouse was made of purple by this King Salomon which sheweth vnto vs the proceeding power of God couering from his heauen azured throne his poore children exposed otherwise vnto al iniuries of weather stormes and tempestes And this is a lesson infinite manie times repeated reiterated in the Scripture namely Ps 91.1 where it is said that who so dwelleth in the secret of the most high shal abide vnder the shadowe of the almightie And Psal 34.15 The eies of the Lorde are vpon the righteous his eares are attentiue vnto their cry And Psal 121.4 The gard and watch-man of Israell wil neuer slumber nor sleepe The

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