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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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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⟩and set apart to his office, there was the Father from heaven uttered an audible voice, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, and there was Christ the party baptized and installed into that great office, then there was the Holy Ghost in the form and shape of a Dove, it being a matter of the greatest consequence that ever was in the world, greater then the Creation, it was fit it should be done with the greatest authority, and so it was, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost being present at the admission of Christ into his office, this is especially here intended, though the other be included, I will put my Spirit upon him, that is, I will anoint him, as it is in Isaiah 61.1. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me (saith Christ) because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek, to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, to open the prison for them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, that is, the year of Jubilee, for that was a Type of Christ, to preach the Gospel, deliverance to all that are in captivity, servitude, and thraldom under Satan and sin, this was accomplished when Christ at his Baptism entered upon his office, God put his Spirit upon him, to set him apart, to ordain him, and to qualify him with abundance of grace for the work, for there are these three things especially meant by putting the Spirit upon him,2 separation, or setting apart, and ordaining and enriching with the gifts of the Spirit.