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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 fell a sleep, and was gathered to his Fathers, and saw Corruption.
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.
HE fell asleep, that is, he died: for sleep in Scripture, it is a middle phrase, appliable to good, and bad: for wicked men (in Scripture) are said to sleep,1 and good men are said to sleep. Only the difference is, as the persons are: for the sleep of wicked men, it is like the sleep of a male factor before his execution, that is oft-times tripped in his sleep:2 or like the sleep of a man in sickness, or in a mad fit, his sleep doth but concoct the malignant humour, and after he wakes, he rageth three times more than he did before. So the sleep, the death of a carnal wicked man, it is but a preparation to his execution: it is ⟨p. 217⟩but the sleep of a distempered man, that wakes with more horror, and terror, and rage, than ever before: indeed properly the death only of the godly is a sleep. But to observe something first briefly in general.
HE fell asleep, that is, he died: for sleep in Scripture, it is a middle phrase, appliable to good, and bad: for wicked men (in Scripture) are said to sleep,1 and good men are said to sleep. Only the difference is, as the persons are: for the sleep of wicked men, it is like the sleep of a male factor before his execution, that is oft-times tripped in his sleep:2 or like the sleep of a man in sicknesse, or in a mad fit, his sleep doth but concoct the malignant humour, and after he wakes, he rageth three times more than he did before. So the sleep, the death of a carnall wicked man, it is but a preparation to his execution: it is ⟨p. 217⟩but the sleep of a distempered man, that wakes with more horrour, and terrour, and rage, than ever before: indeed properly the death only of the godly is a sleep. But to observe something first briefly in generall.
- 1Difference in the death of godly and wicked.