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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
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1I answer, Christ is both God and Man, Christ as God gives the Spirit to his humane nature,2 so he communicates his Spirit, the Spirit is his Spirit as well as the Fathers, the Spirit proceeds from them both. Christ as man receives the Spirit, God the Father and the Son put the Spirit upon the man-hood of Christ, so Christ both gives and receives the Spirit in diverse respects, as God, he gives and sends the Spirit, the spiration and breathing of the Spirit is from him as well as from the Father, but as man he received the Spirit.
1I answer, Christ is both God and Man, Christ as God gives the Spirit to his humane nature,2 so hee communicates his Spirit, the Spirit is his Spirit as well as the Fathers, the Spirit proceeds from them both. Christ as man receives the Spirit, God the Father and the Son put the Spirit upon the man-hood of Christ, so Christ both gives and receives the Spirit in diverse respects, as God, hee gives and sends the Spirit, the spiration and breathing of the Spirit is from him as well as from the Father, but as man he received the Spirit.
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- 2How Christ both gives and receives the Spirit.
And this is the reason of it, next under the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Christ the mediator was to be the spring, and original of all ⟨p. 39⟩comfort and good, therefore Christs nature must not only be sanctified and ordained by the Spirit, but he must receive the Spirit to enrich it: for whatsoever is wrought in the creature is by the Spirit, whatsoever Christ did as man he did by the Spirit. Christs humane nature therefore must be sanctified, and have the Spirit put upon it. God the Father the first person in Trinity, and God the Son the second, they work not immediately, but by the Holy Ghost, the third person, therefore whatsoever is wrought upon the creatre, it comes from the Holy Ghost immediately, so Christ received the Holy Ghost as sent from the Father and the Son. Now as the Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son, so he works from the Father and the Son, he sanctifieth and purifieth, and doth all from the Father and the Son, and knits us to the Father and the Son; to the Son first, and then to the Father, therefore it is said, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost; because all the communion we have with God is by the Holy Ghost, all the communion that Christ as man had with God was by the Holy Ghost, and all the communion that God hath with us and we with God is by the Holy Ghost: for the Spirit is the bond of union between Christ and us, and between God and us, God communicates himself to us by his Spirit, and we communicate with God by his Spirit. God doth all in us by his Spirit,