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Beams of divine light breaking forth from several places of holy Scripture, as they…Beames of divine light breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they…
Beams of divine light breaking forth from several places of holy Scripture, as they were learnedly opened, in XXI. sermons. The III. first being the fore-going sermons to that treatise called The bruised-reed, preached on the precedent words. By the late reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibs, D.D. Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camb: and sometimes preacher at Gray's Inn. Published according to the Doctor his own appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect copies.Beames of divine light breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they were learnedly opened, in XXI. sermons. The III. first being the fore-going sermons to that treatise called The bruised-reed, preached on the precedent words. By the late reverend and iudicious divine, Richard Sibs, D.D. Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camb: and sometimes preacher at Grayes Inne. Published according to the Doctor his owne appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect coppies.
London: printed by George for N. Bourne, 1639
KING DAVIDS EPITAPH. › Then David after he had served in his Generation, the will of God, &c.
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.
First,1 for the time, In his generation. [Generation,] in the Scripture, signifies a succession of men one after another, as you have it in Matth. 1.2 from such a one to such a one, so many generations,3 so many successions. You know in the Latin tongue, seculum, is taken for an age, or generation; the space of an hundred years: though Moses shut up the life of man in a shorter time. Succession of one man after another, is a generation. Generation, sometimes in a general sense, is taken for all of one kind. The generation of Noah, and the generation of the righteous; that is, all of that kind, without restraining it to succession. But most commonly it is the consideration of men from succession of them; having the term from the way whereby we enter into the world, that is, by generation; ⟨p. 172⟩therefore the succession of men from one to another, is called Generation.
First,1 for the time, In his generation. [Generation,] in the Scripture, signifies a succession of men one after another, as you have it in Matth. 1.2 from such a one to such a one, so many generations,3 so many successions. You know in the Latine tongue, seculum, is taken for an age, or generation; the space of an hundred years: though Moses shut up the life of man in a shorter time. Succession of one man after another, is a generation. Generation, sometimes in a generall sense, is taken for all of one kinde. The generation of Noah, and the generation of the righteous; that is, all of that kinde, without restraining it to succession. But most commonly it is the consideration of men from succession of them; having the tearm from the way whereby we enter into the world, that is, by generation;