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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.
The next thing we will observe from the nature of sleep is, that,
The next thing wee will observe from the nature of sleep is, that,
Sleep doth refresh, and repair, and as it were recreate, and make a man anew. Sleep, and rest, it is the blessed ordinance of God, it is an excellent thing to repair man: so after death, nature shall be repaired better; we shall rise fresher, as it is, Psal. 17. ult. when I arise, 1I shall be satisfied with thine image, we shall rise refreshed, better than we lay down.1 So that as we go to bed then, to sleep, to cut off all cares: so when we rest in death, all cares, and fears, and terrors; all annoyances are cut off. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; they rest from their labours: insinuating, that there is no rest before: for to a man that knows that this world is a work-house, and his life a service to God, he thinks of no rest till he be in his grave; so death it is a sleep, in regard of that rest. We rest from the labour of sin, we rest from the wearisome labour of the body, from the labour of afflictions, and oppressions, from the molestations