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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.
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.
Now, to serve, 1implies two things especially, an action, and a reference of that action to the will of another, that is service (as I said before) to do a thing, and to do in obedience: for if a man do never so many things, if it be not in obedience to the will of another, it is no service, he serves himself: so to serve God is, when we know the will of God, to do accordingly, and to do it because it is the will of God; then it is service: or else it is a work indeed done, but no service, or obedience.
Now, to serve, 1implies two things especially, an action, and a reference of that action to the will of another, that is service (as I said before) to do a thing, and to do in obedience: for if a man do never so many things, if it be not in obedience to the will of another, it is no service, he serves himselfe: so to serve God is, when we know the will of God, to do accordingly, and to do it because it is the will of God; then it is service: or else it is a work indeed done, but no service, or obedience.
- 1To serve, wha•?
All obedience is with looking to the will, and pleasure of another, that hath authority to direct us: and then we serve the revealed will of God, when the whole inward and outward man is fashioned, and framed to that: when there is a measuring of both together: as when we obey the directions, when we tremble at the threatenings, when we imitate the examples of holy writ, when we are raised up with the comforts; when answerable to every divine truth, there is an answerable disposition ⟨p. 204⟩of soul: when there is a sweet harmony between Gods truth, and our inward, and outward man.