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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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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⟩there, it is not his theme.3 And as he is speechless so he hath no spiritual eyes to see God in his works. There is nothing that we see with our bodily eyes▪ but our souls should have an eye to see somewhat of God in it, his mercy and goodness and power, &c. 4And so he hath no relish to taste of God in his creatures and mercies: when a man tastes of the creatures he should have a spiritual taste of God and of the mercy in him, Oh how sweet is God! A wicked man hath no taste of God.5 And he cannot hear what the Spirit saith in the Word, he hears the voice of man, but not of the Spirit when the trumpet of the Word sounds never so loud in his ears. These things ought not to be overmuch pressed, much curiosity must not be used in them, but because the Holy Ghost raiseth the proportion from these things, some thing must be said of them.
5Where bodily death is, it deprives of all sences, there is no use of any, either of the eye or tongue,2