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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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So on the contrary it is with death; what is death? Death is nothing else but a separation from the cause of life, from that from whence life springs. The body having a communicated life from the soul, when the soul is departed it must needs be dead.1 Now death (take it in a spiritual sense) it is either the death of law our sentence: as we say of a man when he is condemned, he is a dead man. Or death in regard of disposition; and then the execution of that death of sentence in bodily death, and in eternal death afterward. Now naturally we are dead in all these senses.
So on the contrary it is with death; what is death? Death is nothing else but a seperation from the cause of life, from that from whence life springs. The body having a communicated life from the soule, when the soule is departed it must needs be dead.1 Now death (take it in a spirituall sence) it is either the death of law our sentence: as we say of a man when he is condemned, he is a dead man. Or death in regard of disposition; and then the execution of that death of sentence in bodily death, and in eternall death afterward. Now naturally we are dead in all these sences.
- 1Spiritual death
1First by the sin of Adam, in whose loins we were, we were all damned; there was a sentence of death upon all Adams rotten race, ⟨p. 143⟩as we say damnati antequam nati, we were damned before we were borne, as soon as we had a being in our mothers womb, by reason of our communion with Adam in that first sin.