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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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And then there is corruption of nature as a punishment of that first sin, that is a death (as we shall see afterward) a death of all the powers, we cannot act and move according to that life that we had at the first; we cannot think, we cannot will, we cannot affect, we cannot do any thing that savours of spiritual life.
And then there is corruption of nature as a punishment of that first sinne, that is a death (as we shall see afterward) a death of al the powers, we cannot act and moove according to that life that we had at the first; we cannot thinke, we cannot will, we cannot affect, we cannot doe any thing that savours of spirituall life.
Hereupon comes a death of sentence upon us,2 being damned both in Adams loins and in original sin, and likewise adding actual sins of our own: if we had no actual sin it were enough for the sentence of death to pass upon us, but this aggravates the sentence. We are dead in law as well as in disposition.3 This death in law is called guilt, a binding over to eternal death: it breeds horror and terrors in the soul for the present, which are the flashes of Hell-fire, and expectation of worse (even of the second death) for the time to come, which is an eternal separation from God for ever, an eternal lying under the wrath and curse of God in body and soul (after they are united at the resurrection) because we would sin eternally if we did live eternally here: and no satisfaction being made for man after death, there must be an eternal sentence and punishment upon him, a terrible condition: if we were not afraid of the first death we should ⟨p. 144⟩be afraid of the second death that follows, we are all dead in trespasses and sins.
Hereupon comes a death of sentence upon us,2