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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
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I will put my Spirit upon him.
Now we come to the qualification of Christ for his calling, in these words, I will put my Spirit upon him, that is, I will clothe him with my Spirit, I will put it (as it were) upon him as a garment.
Now wee come to the qualification of Christ for his calling, in these words, I will put my Spirit upon him, that is, I will cloath him with my Spirit, I will put it (as it were) upon him as a garment.
1Now there were divers degrees of Christs receiving the Spirit at several times: for he was conceived by the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost did sanctify that blessed mass whereof his body was framed in the womb of the Virgin, he was quickened in the womb in his conception by the Holy Ghost, and he was graced by the Holy Ghost, and led by the Spirit in all things before his Baptism, but afterward when he came to set upon his office, to be the Prophet, and Priest, and King of his Church, that great office of saving mankind, which he did not solemnly set upon till he was thirty years old, then God poured upon him a special portion of the Spirit answerable to that great calling, then the Spirit lighted upon him, Christ was ordained to his office by the greatest authority that ever any was ordained from the beginning of the world: for at his Baptism when he was ordained ⟨p. 33⟩