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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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To the Reader.
Christian Reader:
THE Word of God is given us as a most precious treasure, and that not for our selves only, but for our children after us, and therefore is called Israel's Inheritance, Deut. 33.4. Moses commanded us a Law, even the Inheritance of the Congregation of Jacob. All the wealth in the world is but as dirt and trash in comparison of the Word to the people of God. (Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of mine heart, saith David, Psal. 119.111.) And therefore as they rejoice in their own enjoying of it, so they do what they may to assure it to their children when they are dead, that it may be entailed upon them and their posterity after them, Yea so they do also with the knowledge of divine truths which they have found in the Word, (which is not indeed found out by men all at one time, but by degrees, as Gold is found in Mines▪ as men come to search farther and farther and to dig deeper and deeper for it) It was not (they know) imparted to them for their own use only, but for ⟨image 5⟩