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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.
THE DEAD-MAN.
EPHES. 2.1. And you hath •ee quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
EPHES. 2.1. And you hath •ee quickned, who were dead in trespasses and sinnes.
THE matter of this excellent Epistle is,1 partly doctrinal, and partly exhortatory: as it was S. Pauls course in all his Epistles, to lay the foundation of practise in doctrine. The heart must be moved, but the brain must be instructed first: there is a sympathy between those two parts, as in nature, so in grace. The doctrinal part of the Epistle sets out the riches of Christ, (chiefly in the first Chapter) in regard of the spring of them, Gods eternal ⟨p. 138⟩election. Then in this Chapter by way of comparison; by comparing the state of grace to the state of nature. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
THE matter of this excellent Epistle is,1