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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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The inference in the Prophet Isaiah is to comfort the people, and to direct them how to come to worship the true God, after he had declaimed against their Idolatry, as we see in the former chapter, Behold my servant, &c. Great Princes have their Ambassadors, and the great God of Heaven hath his Son, his servant in whom he delights, through whom, and by whom, all intercourse between God and man is.
The inference in the Prophet Isaiah is to comfort the people, and to direct them how to come to worship the true God, after he had declaimed against their Idolatry, as we see in the former chapter, Behold my servant, &c. Great Princes have their Embassadours, and the great God of Heaven hath his Son, his servant in whom hee delights, through whom, and by whom, all intercourse betweene God and man is.
It is usual in the Prophesies, especially of Isaiah that Evangelical Prophet, when he foretells any thing comfortable to the people,1 in the promise of temporal things he riseth to stablish their faith in better things,1 by adding thereto a prophecy, and promise of Christ the Messiah, to insinuate thus much, I will send you the Messiah that is a greater gift then this that I have promised you, therefore you may be sure of the less, as the Apostle reasons excellently, Rom. 8. If he spared not his own son but delivered him to death for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things? So here, I have promised you deliverance out of Babylon, and this and that, do you doubt of the performance? alas what is that in comparison of a greater favour I intend you in Christ, that shall deliver you out of another manner of Babylon, Behold my servant whom I have chosen, and in Isa. 7. Behold a Virgin shall conceive, and bare a son, &c. I will send you the Messiah, God shall become man, therefore I will not stand for any outward favour or deliverance whatsoever. So he goes to the grand promise, that they might reason from the greater to the less.