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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
THE DEAD-MAN. › And you hath he quickened.THE DEAD-MAN. › And you hath he quickned.
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And you hath he quickened.
And you hath he quickned.
Suitable to the *occasion. This being our estate, let us know how much we are beholding to God who hath quickened us. God quickens us with Christ and in Christ. It is a comfortable consideration. In that God hath quickened Christ and raised him from the grave, it shows that his Fathers wrath is pacified, or else he would not have quickened him, he gave ⟨p. 157⟩him to death, and quickened him again, therefore we may know that he hath paid the price for us. And he quickens us with Christ and in Christ, whatsoever we have that is good it is in Christ first, That Christ in all things might have the preeminence. Christ first rose and ascended and sits in Heaven, and then we rise and ascend and sit in heavenly places with Christ, *Therefore as St. Peter saith well, in 1. Peter 1.20. God hath raised Christ, that our faith might be in God. If Christ had not been raised up, our Faith and Hope could not have been in God, that he would raise us up, we are quickened and raised in Christ, all is in Christ first, and then in us. The ground of this is, that Christ was a public person in all that he did, in his death, therefore we are crucified and buried with him; in his resurrection and ascension, therefore we are quickened with him and sit in heavenly places with him. He is the second Adam; And if the first Adam could convey death to so many thousands, so many thousand years after; and if the world should continue millions of years, he would convey death to all: shall not Christ the second Adam convey life to all that are in him. So think of all things both comfortable and uncomfortable in Christ first, when we think of sin, think of it in him our Surety and when we think of freedom from death and damnation; think of his death, when we think of our resurrection, think of his, when he rose again; in his resurrection the acquittance