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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.
As the Horse rusheth into the battle.
As the Horse rusheth into the battell.
Here it is comparatively set down, If you would see how the horse rusheth into the battle, it is lively and divinely expressed, Job. 39.19. by God himself. Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a Grasshopper, the glory of his nostrils is terrible, he pa•eth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength, he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted: neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets ha ha; and he smelleth the battle a far off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting. There you have an excellent description of this creatures fierceness (the wit of man hath not such expressions) and how he rusheth into the battle, God to abase wicked men, compares them here to the horse, not for that which is good in him, but for their violence in ill courses; they rush into them, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Now the horse rusheth into the battle, 1. Eagerly, (as you see him described in the place of Job) and 2. Desperately, he will not be pulled away by any means, and then 3. Dangerously: For he rusheth upon the pikes, and ⟨p. 110⟩oft-times falls down suddenly dead, he regards not the pikes nor guns nor nothing, but rusheth on in the danger. Herein wicked men are like unto the horse, going on in their course eagerly,1 desperately, dangerously, 1. They go on eagerly, it is meat and drink unto them, They cannot sleep until they have done wickedness. They plot and study it, it is their delight, they are not in their element, but when they are talking wickedly, and corruptly, or deceiving, or satisfying their desires, the ambition and lusts of their corrupt nature. They can no more live out of these courses, then the fish can live out of the water: therefore they go eagerly upon them.