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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.
As there is no sense nor moving to outward things,6 so no outward thing can move a dead body: offer him colours to the eye, food to the taste, or any thing to the feeling, nothing moves him: So a dead soul, as it cannot move to good, so it is moved with nothing, that that affects a child of God, and makes him tremble and quake, it affects not a carnal man at all.
As there is no sence nor mooving to outward things,6 so no outward thing can moove a dead body: offer him colours to the eye, food to the taste, or any thing to the feeling, nothing mooves him: So a dead soule, as it cannot moove to good, so it is mooved with nothing, that that affects a child of God, and makes him tremble and quake, it affects not a carnall man at all.
- 6Immovable.Immooveable.
And as in bodily death,7 the longer it is dead, the more noisome and offensive it is every day more then other: So sin it makes the soul more loathsome and noisome daily, till they ⟨p. 150⟩have filled up the measure of their sins, till the earth can bear them no longer. We say of a dead body it is heavy: so dead souls I am sure they are heavy, heavy to God and to Christ that dyed for sin, and heavy in themselves, they sink to earthly things in their affections, and thereby they sink lower and lower to Hell, and never leave sinking till they be there. As the life of grace is like the Sun when it riseth, it grows still till it come to full perfection, till it come to the life of glory: So on the contrary this death is a death that is more and more increased in the loathsomeness and noisomeness of it every way: so that the longer a carnal man lives the more guilt he contracts, A child of a hundred years old (as the Prophet saith) the longer he lives the more vengeance is stored for him; he treasures vengeance up against the day of vengeance, and it is a curse for a man in his natural estate to live long, for he grows more and more abominable every way. These things help to understand the Scripture, and therefore so far we may well think of them.