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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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But herein a wicked man agrees with a dead body, a dead body is not loathsome to its self. So take a carnal man, he pranks up himself, he thinks himself a jolly man, especially when he is set out in his flowers, those things that he begs of the creatures, he sees not his loathsomeness; he thinks himself a brave man in the world, in the place he lives in: and he hath base conceits of others, of God, and all things of God. Dead men are not loathsome to themselves, because they want senses. As in a prison, the noisome savour is not offensive to them, because they are all acquainted with it; it hath seized upon and possessed their ⟨p. 148⟩senses: So wicked men they smell no ill savour and sent one from another: because they are all dead persons, one dead man is not loathsome to another: as a company of prisoners they are not offended with the noisomeness of one another.
But herein a wicked man agrees with a dead body, a dead body is not loathsome to its selfe. So take a carnall man, hee pranks up himselfe, hee thinkes himselfe a jolly man, especially when hee is set out in his flowers, those things that hee beggs of the creatures, he sees not his loathsomenesse; hee thinkes himselfe a brave man in the world, in the place he lives in: and hee hath base conceits of others, of God, and all things of God. Dead men are not loathsome to themselves, because they want sences. As in a prison, the noisome savour is not offensive to them, because they are all acquainted with it; it hath ceazed upon and possessed their ⟨p. 148⟩sences: So wicked men they smell no ill savour and sent one from another: because they are all dead persons, one dead man is not loathsome to another: as a company of prisoners they are not offended with the noysomenesse of one another.
4Again, we sever dead persons from the rest: so indeed a dead soul as he is severed from God, so de jure, he should be severed from the company of others: there should be a separation, and as soon as the life of grace is begun, there will be a separation between the living and the dead. Let the dead follow the dead, and bury the dead, saith our Saviour in the Gospel.