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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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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.
4Againe, we sever dead persons from the rest: so indeed a dead soule as he is severed from God, so ae jure, he should be severed from the company of others: there should be a seperation, and as soone as the life of grace is begun, there will be a seperation betweene the living and the dead. Let the dead follow the dead, and bury the dead, saith our Saviour in the Gospell.
- 4They are separate from God and Gods people.They are seperate from God and Gods people.
5Where bodily death is, it deprives of all senses, there is no use of any, either of the eye or tongue,2 &c. it makes them speechless: So he that is spiritually a dead man, he can speak nothing that is savoury and good of spiritual things, if he doth he is out of his element, if he speak of good things he speaks with the spirit of another man; if he speak of the writings of other men, it is with the spirit of the writer. He cannot speak to God in praise, or to others in experience of the work of grace, because he hath a dead soul. Put him to his own arguments, to talk of vanity, to swear or to talk of the times, you shall have him in his theme: but to talk of God and divine things (unless it be to swear by them and to scorn good things) he cannot; he is speechless ⟨p. 149⟩