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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.
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.
Because he saw that their soules were corrupted and desperately set upon the seeking after earthly things, and when the soule is invested to any thing, there must first be a remoovall of that; as in ground, the thornes must first bee rooted out, before there bee any sowing of seeds, and in bodily distempers, there must first bee a purge of the malignant humour, before there be any Cordialls 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 seeke after, seeke the foode that endures to everlasting life.
Here is the prerogative of Christianity, a Heathen man out of the strength of moral discourse and outward experience can teach the