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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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This is the state of those that belong to God, that give way to the motions of Gods Spirit to rule and guide them; therefore if we would have the Spirit of Christ, let us take heed of rebelling against it.
This is the state of many of us (the Lord be merciful to us, and cure us) that we do not only not receive the motions of the Spirit deeply into us, but if they be such a cross us in our pleasures and profits, though the Word and Spirit join together, there is a rising of the proud spirit of man against so much of the Spirit and the motions of it, and against such parts of the Word as crosseth us, this will be laid heavy to our charge one day that we would bring the Spirit of God to our corruptions, and not bring our hearts to Gods Spirit, and hereupon be those phrases in the Scripture of tempting the Spirit, Ananias and Sapphira tempted the Spirit, that is, when men will do that which is naught, and try whether God will forgive them, and put it off or no, how many are there that tempt the Spirit? that put it off, perhaps I shall have the like motions another time, I shall have better occasion when I can gain no more, when I can have my pleasures no more, thus men resist the Spirit, as Saint Stephen saith, that is when the Spirit discovers to them what they should believe, and what they should do, and they see it crosseth their resolution to be naught, hereupon they resist the work of the Spirit, that else would close with their souls and sanctify them, and fit them for Heaven, if they would give way to it. And there is a quenching of the Spirit, that is, when men have sweet motions of the Spirit, and presently by some ill language or ⟨p. 61⟩course of life they defile their vessels and quench the sweet motions of the Spirit. Let us take heed of all these, of tempting, of resisting, and quenching the Spirit: For undoubtedly (living in the bosom of the Church) we have many heavenly motions, especially those that have so much goodness in them as to attend upon Gods ordinances, they have those motions at those times, that they never have after perhaps, but they either resist them, or quench them, and wrong and grieve the Spirit, as Saint Paul saith, Grieve not the Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption,