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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. › He served.KING DAVIDS EPITAPH. › Hee served.
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He served.
Hee served.
Now I come to the act of Service,3 God must be served according to his own Will: we must search, and try what is the good, and holy, and acceptable Will of God Rom. 12.2 I have showed how we may search in particular what the good, and acceptable Will of God is: Now when this is discovered, the next thing is to serve God in the knowledge of his Will: for all the blessings are annexed to service, and not to knowledge. If ye know this Will; is there all? no; happy are ye if ye do it. If we know the rule and do it, we are happy. What if we do it not? He that knows his Masters will, and doth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes. It will but aggravate our damnation,3 to know the rule, to have directions what to do, and not to do them. Then the rule that we have, hath another use: ⟨p. 202⟩if we use it not for direction in what we do, it will be brought against us at the day of judgment, as a direction for God to damn us by: this you knew, this counsel you had, these motions of the Spirit you had; this, Conscience told you; this, the Ministry, and your friends told you; notwithstanding you crossed, and thwarted all; when it is not a direction for us to obedience, it will be a direction for God to give sentence. Therefore let us make conscience, first to know the will of God, (which is the rule of all our actions) by all the means we can, and then to give service to it. David served the will of God: his life was not unfruitfully, and wickedly spent; but he served the Counsel of God that had planted, and placed him there in the world for that purpose. Why hath God planted us here, in the Paradise of the Church? that we should not be barren trees; or bring forth ill fruit: but that we should serve him, and be fruitful in our places