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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 of all, There is a generation, a succession of men.1
- 1Obser.
1Particular men go off the stage; but the species, the kind is eternal; kinds of things continue forever. Man dies no•, but Paul and Pete• and David die: there is a succession of particular men. It is with men, as it is with the waves of the sea; one wave goes away, and ⟨p. 173⟩another comes after. It is with men as it is with trees: for men are compared in Scripture to trees: trees of righteousness; and man, take him in his nature, is like a tree: the Poet could say to that purpose; it is with men as with trees, some leaves fall off in Autumn, and others come in their place the next spring: so it is with men, they have their several Generations, there is an Autumn, a decay, and there is a spring of them, there is a succession of Generations.2
1Particular men go off the stage; but the species, the kinde is eternall; kinds of things continue forever. Man dies no•, but Paul and Pete• and David die: there is a succession of particular men. It is with men, as it is with the waves of the sea; one wave goes away, and ⟨p. 173⟩another comes after. It is with men as it is with trees: for men are compared in Scripture to trees: trees of righteousnesse; and man, take him in his nature, is like a tree: the Poet could say to that purpose; it is with men as with trees, some leaves fall off in Autumne, and others come in their place the next spring: so it is with men, they have their severall Generations, there is an Autumne, a decay, and there is a spring of them, there is a succession of Generations.