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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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By comparing the sins with the judgements: ⟨p. 118⟩if there be such sins that such judgements are threatened for; then as the thread followeth the needle, and the shadow the body, so those judgements follow such and such courses. For God hath knit and linked these together, all the power in the world and hell cannot unlink them, sin and judgement: judgement either correcting us to amendment or confounding us to perdition God therefore having threatened in the Scriptures such judgements to such sins, if we live in such and such sins, we may look for such judgements. Thus a wise man by laying things together, the sins with the judgements, though he cannot tell the particular, yet he may know that some heavy judgement is at hand.
By comparing the sinnes with the judgements: ⟨p. 118⟩if there be such sinnes that such judgements are threatned for; then as the thred followeth the needle, and the shadow the body, so those judgements follow such and such courses. For God hath knit and linked these together, all the power in the world and hell cannot unlinke them, sin and judgement: judgement either correcting us to amendment or confounding us to perdition God therefore having threatned in the Scriptures such judgements to such sinnes, if we live in such and such sins, we may looke for such judgements. Thus a wise man by laying things together, the sins with the judgements, though he cannot tell the particular, yet he may know that some heavy judgement is at hand.
2Again, there is a nearer way to know a judgement, when it hath seized on us in part already: he that is not brutish and sottish, and drunk with cares and sensuality, must needs know a judgement when it is already inflicted, when part of the house is on fire: We see judgement hath seized now on the places where we live, and therefore we cannot be ignorant of it.