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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.
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Again, it is in this respect a sleep: 2because a man goes to bed with assured hope of rising again, and therefore he goes quietly: though it be a state of darkness for the time, all the senses are bound up, yet he knows that in Gods ordinary providence, he shall rise again: therefore men not only quietly, but cheerfully go to bed. So there is greater ground to know that we shall rise again out of our graves, than that we should rise out of our beds: for many mens beds have been their graves, in some sort, (I mean) they have died in their beds: but for the resurrection, we have the word of Almighty God, (that is a God of his word) that we shall rise again: and we have it in the pledge of our Saviours resurrection, there is no doubt of that.
Againe, it is in this respect a sleep: 2because a man goes to bed with assured hope of rising againe, and therefore he goes quietly: though it be a state of darknesse for the time, all the senses are bound up, yet hee knowes that in Gods ordinarie providence, hee shall rise againe: therefore men not only quietly, but cheerefully go to bed. So there is greater ground to know that wee shall rise againe out of our graves, than that we should rise out of our beds: for many mens beds have been their graves, in some sort, (I meane) they have died in their beds: but for the resurrection, we have the word of Almighty God, (that is a God of his word) that we shall rise againe: and we have it in the pledge of our Saviours resurrection, there is no doubt of that.
- 2Hope of rising.
Therefore when we die (if we have faith) we should make no more of death, than men do to go to bed: hoping undoubtedly of an assured, and joyful resurrection. The want of faith in that kind, makes us backward to this: you see in what respect death is said to be a sleep. To speak only of those references, and relations that are most pertinent between sleep and death.