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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.
I answer (in a word) when they either hinder ⟨p. 174⟩us from, or hinder us in holy things, when they keep us from holy duties, as from the sanctifying of the Lords day, or from any other service of God, or when they hinder us in them, when they fill us full of distractions, when they turn the soul from the business in hand, &c. thus when they do either hinder us from or hinder us in better things, we may know we offend against this dissuasion of Christ, Labour not for the meat that perisheth.
I answer (in a word) when they either hinder ⟨p. 174⟩us from, or hinder us in holy things, when they keepe us from holy duties, as from the santifying of the Lords day, or from any other service of God, or when they hinder us in them, when they fill us full of distractions, when they turne the soule from the businesse in hand, &c. thus when they doe either hinder us from or hinder us in better things, we may know wee offend against this disswasion of Christ, Labour not for the meate that perisheth.
But why doth our Saviour begin first with his dissuasion, Labour not for the meat that perisheth, and then enjoin what they should seek after, but for the meat that endureth to everlasting life?
But why doth our Saviour begin first with his disswasion, Labour not for the meate that perisheth, and then injoyne what they should seeke after, but for the meate that endureth to everlasting life?
Because he saw that their souls were corrupted and desperately set upon the seeking after earthly things, and when the soul is invested to any thing, there must first be a removal of that; as in ground, the thorns must first be rooted out, before there be any sowing of seeds, and in bodily distempers, there must first be a purge of the malignant humour, before there be any Cordials given; so Christ, he first takes them off from an immoderate and inordinate seeking after the world and earthly things, and then he directs them what they should do, what they should seek after, seek the food that endures to everlasting life.