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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
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 Christ performs these three offices in this order.
Now Christ performes these three offices in this order.
First of all he is a Prophet, when he was baptised the Spirit was put upon him, as in Isaiah 61. To preach deliverance to the captives. First he preached wherefore he came into the world, why God sent him, and discovered to the world the state they were in, and when he had preached as a Prophet, then as a Priest he dyed, and offered himself a Sacrifice.
First of all he is a Prophet, when he was baptised the Spirit was put upon him, as in Isaiah 61. To preach deliverance to the captives. First he preached wherefore he came into the world, why God sent him, and discovered to the world the state they were in, and when he had preached as a Prophet, then as a Preist he dyed, and offered himselfe a Sacrifice.
After death his Kingly office was most apparent. For then he rose again as a triumphant King over death and all our enemies, and ascended in his triumphant chariot to Heaven, and there he sits gloriously as a King in his throne at the right hand of God, so that how ever at his Baptism, and before when he was sanctified in his mothers womb, he was both King, Priest, and Prophet, yet in regard of the order of manifestation, he manifested himself first to be a Prophet, secondly a Priest, and thirdly to be a King: For his Kingly office brake forth but seldom in the time of his abasement, sometimes it did, to show that he was ⟨p. 37⟩