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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.
A godly man considers who are good, and who are naught in his generation, and he walks to heaven with those that are good, though they be never so few; he goes in a contrary motion to others, he doth not conform to the world,1 Rom. 12. he fashions not himself according to the world, according to the wicked men in the generation he lives in: but he fashions himself to them that are of another world, that go a contrary way to the world.
A godly man considers who are good, and who are naught in his generation, and hee walks to heaven with those that are good, though they be never so few; he goes in a contrarie motion to others, he doth not conforme to the world,1 Rom. 12. he fashions not himselfe according to the world, according to the wicked men in the generation he lives in: but he fashions himselfe to them that are of another world, that go a contrarie way to the world.
- 1Rom. 12.
Every generation hath a Genius both for manners and study:1 former times they were given to Barbarism: now these times are more refined for outward respects. So for sins; every age hath particular sins that reign; Superstition in former times: but now the clean contrary; Profaneness, Atheism, hardness of heart against the light, Presumption, Looseness, and the like. Now these being the sins of our times, we should go so much the stronger against the stream of Profaneness, and Atheism. The Devil discovers himself in divers shapes,