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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 FRUITFUL LABOUR FOR Eternal Food.THE FRVITFVLL LABOVR FOR Eternall Food.
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.
Nay (to raise it a little higher) Learning and Knowledge, if it be only of perishing things, is food that perisheth, for as the frame of nature and the civill frame of the world must have an end and perish, so the knowledge of natural and civill things must needs be perishing also.
Nay (to raise it a little higher) Learning and Knowledge, if it be onely of perishing things, is food that perisheth, for as the frame of nature and the civill frame of the world must have an end and perish, so the knowledge of naturall and civill things must needs be perishing also.
And to say no more, the very knowledge, the speculative and contemplative knowledge of religious things, if we have only the knowledge ⟨p. 168⟩of the things in us and are not turned into the things we know, is a perishing thing. The truths of God indeed are the food of the soul, but unless the goodness of those truths be the food of the will and affections, unless we are moulded and fashioned into the very form of those truths, unless we are framed to a love and liking of that which we know, that those truths be rooted and planted in us, it is food that perisheth.
And to say no more, the very knowledge, the speculative and contemplative knowledge of religious things, if we have onely the knowledge ⟨p. 168⟩of the things in us and are not turned into the things we know, is a perishing thing. The truthes of God indeed are the food of the soule, but unlesse the goodnesse of those truths be the food of the will and affections, unlesse we are molded and fashioned into the very forme of those truthes, unlesse we are framed to a love and liking of that which we know, that those truths be rooted and planted in us, it is food that perisheth.