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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.
Lastly, not in one trespass and in one sin; but in trespasses and sins.
Lastly, not in one trespasse and in one sin; but in trespasses and sins.
And then to speak a little of quickening, to take it out of the 5. verse. You hath he quickened. There is the benefit with the condition. That which Jaime at is especially to show our estate by nature, and how we are raised out of that. I shall touch the points briefly as I have propounded them.
And then to speake a little of quickning, to take it out of the 5. verse. You hath he quickned. There is the benefit with the condition. That which Jaime at is especially to shew our estate by nature, and how we are raised out of that. I shall touch the points briefly as I have propounded them.
1Saint Paul here first minds them of their former condition, you were dead in trespasses and sins: For contraries give lustre one to another, and it magnifies grace marvellously to consider the opposite condition. He that never knew the height and breadth and depth of his natural corruption, will never be able to conceive the height and breadth and depth of Gods infinite love in Jesus Christ. Saint Paul had deep thoughts of both as ever man had; therefore he could never enter into the argument, of abasing man, and extolling the love of God in Christ, that he could satisfy himself: but his spirit carries him from one thing to another, till he set it out to the full. And every one of us should be skilful in this double mystery, the mystery of the corruption of nature that is unsearchable, there is corruption in the heart that none knows but God only: and we must plough with his heifer that carries a light into the hidden parts of the soul, and discovers corruption: there is a mystery of that as well as of the Gospel, of our deliverance out of that cursed estate from the guilt and thraldom of it. I do but touch it only, to show the scope of the Apostle.