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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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Therefore though we be all dead,1 even the best of us by nature: yet let us use the parts of nature that we have, that God hath given us, to offer our selves to the gracious and blessed means wherein the Spirit of God may work. Let us come to hear the Word of God, John 5.25. The time is come and now is that the dead shall hear the voice of God, where the voice of God is in the Ministry, and so they shall live. As in the latter day the noise of the trumpet shall raise the dead bodies: So the trumpet of the Word of God sounding in the ears of men (together with the Spirit) shall raise the dead souls out of the grave of sin. Therefore J beseech you as you would be raised up ⟨p. 154⟩out of this death, hear the noise of Gods trumpet come within the compass of the means. As God is the God of life, and Christ calls himself the life and the Spirit, the Spirit of life: So the Word is the Word of life, because together with the Word God conveys spiritual life. The Word of God in the Ordinance is an operative working Word. As it was in the creation, God said, Let there be light and there was light: So in the Ministry it exhorts and stirs up to duty, and there is a clothing of the ministerial word with an almighty power, it is a working word. As when Christ spake to Lazarus, when he stank in his grave, he said Lazarus come forth, it was an operative working word, there went an almighty power to raise Lazarus. Therefore though we find our selves dead and have no work of grace: yet let us present our selves more and more to the Ordinance of God. God will be mighty in his own Ordinance: the blessed time may come, let us wait when the waters are stirred, and take heed that we despise not the counsel of God, which is to bring man to spiritual life this way.
Therefore though we be all dead,1 even the best of us by nature: yet let us use the parts of nature that we have, that God hath given us, to offer our selves to the gracions and blessed meanes wherein the Spirit of God may worke. Let us come to heare the Word of God, Iohn 5.25. The time is come and now is that the dead shall heare the voice of God, where the voice of God is in the Ministery, and so they shall live. As in the latter day the noyse of the trumpet shall raise the dead bodies: So the trumpet of the Word of God sounding in the eares of men (together with the Spirit) shall raise the dead soules out of the grave of sin. Therefore J beseech you as you would be raised up