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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.
Who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Their condition is,1 they were dead; the specification of their death, in sins and trespasses, and not in one, but in sins and trespasses. Here I might digress and tell you a discourse of life and death at large:2 every man knows by experience what they are. In a word death is a privation of life.3 What is life? and whence ariseth it? Not to speak of the life of God, (God is life and Christ is life) but of l•fe in us. It ariseth from the soul: first there is a soul; and then a life from the union with that soul; and then there is a secret kindled motion and operation outward, wheresoever life is. Life in man (I say) spring• from the soul: The soul hath a double life, a life in it self, and a life it communicates to the body. The life in ⟨p. 140⟩[…] ⟨p. 141⟩[…] ⟨p. 142⟩it self, it liveth when it is out of the body, it hath an essential life of its own: but the life of the body is derived from its union with the soul, and from that union comes lively motion and operation.4 The spiritual life of the soul is by the Spirit of Christ, when our soul hath union with the quickening Spirit of Christ, and by Christs Spirit is joined to Christ, and by Christ to God, who is life it self and the first fountain of all life: then we have a spiritual life. The Spirit is the soul of our souls, and this spiritual soul, this Spirit in us is not idle wherever life is there is motion and operation inward and outward suitable and proportionable to the fountain of life, the Spirit of God himself.