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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.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead, &c.
And you hath hee quickned, who were dead, &c.
Let us consider a little what a condition this is, to be dead in trespasses and sins. Not to speak of the danger of the death of sentence, when a man by the state of nature lies under the wrath of God, that hangs over his head, and is ready to crush him every moment.1 But to speak of that death that seizeth upon our dispositions, we are dead by nature.1 And what doth death work upon the body? unactivenesse, stiffness; so when the Spirit of God is severed from the soul, it is cold, and unactive, and stiff. Therefore those that find no life to that that is good, no nor no power nor strength; it is a sign that they have not yet felt the power of the quickening Spirit, when they hear coldly, and receive the Sacrament coldly, as if it were a dead piece of work and business; when they do anything that is spiritually good coldly, and forced; not from an inward principle of love to God (that might heat and warm their hearts:) but they go about it as a thing that must be done, ⟨p. 146⟩and think to satisfy God with an outward dead action.
Let us consider a little what a condition this is, to be dead in trespasses and sinnes. Not to speake of the danger of the death of sentence, when a man by the state of nature lies under the wrath of God, that hanges over his head, and is ready to crush him every moment.1 But to speake of that death that seizeth upon our dispositions, wee are dead by nature.1 And what doth death worke upon the body? unactivenesse, stiffnesse; so when the Spirit of God is severed from the soule, it is cold, and unactive, and stiffe. Therefore those that finde no life to that that is good, no nor no power nor strength; it is a signe that they have not yet felt the power of the quickning Spirit, when they heare coldly, and receive the Sacrament coldly, as if it were a dead piece of worke and businesse; when they doe anything that is spiritually good coldly, and forced; not from an inward principle of love to God (that might heate and warme their hearts:) but they goe about it as a thing that must be done,