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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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Now, besides this inward, there is a service of God that comes from this inward service, which is, of the outward man, that is, when ⟨p. 205⟩we pray to God▪ and that requires our words, when we praise God in thanksgiving, when we come to hear the word, and to receive the Sacrament; and so all outward holy actions are the service of God, and are drawn from the inward immediate worship of God that I spake of before.
Now, besides this inward, there is a service of God that comes from this inward service, which is, of the outward man, that is, when ⟨p. 205⟩we pray to God▪ and that requires our words, when we praise God in thanksgiving, when we come to heare the word, and to receive the Sacrament; and so all outward holy actions are the service of God, and are drawne from the inward immediate worship of God that I spake of before.
Besides these (which come more immediately from a sanctified spirit) there is a service of God,3 that is the obedience of the second Table, when we do good to men with an eye to serve God as we say; there is an elicit proper service of God, & a commanded service of God, cultus imperatus. All duties to men are a service of God, when we do them as commanded of God, as, because I love God, therefore I honour my parents, and Magistrates, and therefore I will not commit adultery, as Joseph, shall I do this and offend God? So the Scripture allegeth reasons out of the first Table, when we are tempted to sins against the second Table: and then the duties of the second Table are a worship, and service of God, when they are commanded by the first. And this is the difference between a mere formal man,2