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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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But how or by what means doth Christ give his Spirit to us?1 This Spirit that is so necessary for us,1 it is given by the ministry of the Gospel, which is the ministry of the Spirit, received ye the Holy Ghost by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith preached? when the love of God in Christ, and the benefits by Christ are laid open in the preaching of the Gospel to us, God gives his holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Now God in Christ would save us by a triumphant and abundant love and mercy, and the Spirit of God never goes but where there is a magnifying of the love and mercy of God in Christ, therefore the ministry of the Gospel, which only discovers ⟨p. 56⟩the amity and love of God to man-kind being now reconciled in Christ, it is accompanied with the Spirit, to assure us of our part and portion in those benefits: for the Spirit is the fruit of Gods love as well as Christ, Christ is the first gift, and the Spirit is the second, therefore that part of the word that discovers Gods exceeding love to man-kind, leaving Angels (when they were fallen) in their cursed estate: and yet giving his Son to become man, and a curse for us, the discovery of this love and mercy of God, and of his Son Christ to us, is joined with the Spirit: for by the Spirit we see our cursed estate without the love and mercy of God in Christ, and likewise we are convinced of the love of God in Christ, and thereupon we love God again, and trust to his mercy, and out of love to him perform all cheerful obedience, whatsoever we do else if it be not stirred by the Spirit, apprehending the love of God in Christ, it is but morality. A man shall never go to Heaven but by such a disposition, and frame and temper of soul as is wrought by the Holy Ghost, persuading the soul first of the love and favour of God in Christ. What are all our performances if they be not out of love to God? and how shall we love God except we be persuaded that he loves us first? therefore the Gospel breeds love in us to God, and hath the Spirit together with it, working a blessed frame of sanctification, whereby we are disposed to every good ⟨p. 57⟩duty. Therefore if we would have the Spirit of God let us attend upon the sweet promises of salvation, upon the doctrine of Christ: