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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.
And indeed grace is called judgement, in the phrase of Scripture, the grace of sanctification, because it is agreeable to judgement, to Gods law, it is agreeable to it, and wrought by it in the soul, and it is the best judgement, for grace whereby the soul is subject to the judgement and law, and rule of God, it must needs be the best judgement, because it is agreeable to Gods judgement, grace judgeth aright of things, and subdues all things, the affections and inward man to it self.
And indeed grace is called judgement, in the phrase of Scripture, the grace of sanctification, because it is agreeable to judgement, to Gods law, it is agreeable to it, and wrought by it in the soule, and it is the best judgement, for grace whereby the soule is subject to the judgement and law, and rule of God, it must needs be the best judgement, because it is agreeable to Gods judgement, grace judgeth aright of things, and subdues all things, the affections and inward man to it selfe.
But why is the word of God called judgement?1
- 1The word of God called judgement.
It is called so frequently in the Psalms, and ⟨p. 64⟩in other places of Scripture, because the truth of God shows what God doth judge. Judgement is originally in God who is the first truth, and the first good, the first truth judgeth best of truths, what is light, and what is darkness, what is truth, and what is error, what is good, and what is ill, what is safe, and what is dangerous; all will grant that God is the first light, and the first truth, therefore he doth originally judge of the difference of things: for even as in the creation he put an eternal difference between light and darkness, and severed things that were in the confuse Chaos, and established an orderly world, that Heaven should be above, and earth below, that one thing should be above another, and all in judgement. So in the governing of man-kind, he shows his judgement by his word, and that word shows how God judgeth of things. Laws show, judgement what is to be done, and what is not to be done. The Gospel shows Gods judgement, what he will have us believe and hope for, and how we must carry our selves in way of thankfulnesses if we do this, then the Gospel, the word of God judgeth what shall become of us, we shall be saved, if we do the contrary, the word again judgeth what our state shall be, we shall be damned, so it is called judgement, because it judgeth what is good and what is ill, and because it determineth what shall become of us if we obey or disobey.