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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.
The meat that endures to everlasting life is our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus, as he is contained and wrapped up in the means of salvation, with all the blessed liberties, privileges, and prerogatives, graces and comforts that we have by him and in him: for our blessed Saviour never goes alone, he is never embraced naked, but with him goes his graces, comforts, prerogatives and liberties; we have him not now as we shall see him face to face hereafter in Heaven, but he is to be considered as wrapped up in the Word and Sacraments, so is ⟨p. 176⟩Christ the food that lasts to everlasting life, and in this latitude we must take it, or else we mistake and straiten the Holy Ghost.
The meate that endures to everlasting life is our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus, as he is contained and wrapped up in the meanes of salvation, with all the blessed liberties, priviledges, and prerogatives, graces and comforts that we have by him and in him: for our blessed Saviour never goes alone, hee is never imbraced naked, but with him goes his graces, comforts, prerogatives and liberties; wee have him not now as we shall see him face to face hereafter in Heaven, but he is to be considered as wrapped up in the Word and Sacraments, so is ⟨p. 176⟩Christ the foode that lasts to everlasting life, and in this latitude we must take it, or else wee mistake and straiten the Holy Ghost.
But why is our blessed Saviour so considered, and the comforts, and prerogatives, and good things we have by him termed food?
In divers respects. To instance in a few: but first, you must know that as the soul hath a life as well as the body, so it hath a taste as well as the body, and as God (least the body should pine away) hath planted in it an appetite, which is the bodies longing after that which refresheth it, for if it were not for appetite, if it were not for hunger and thirst who would care for meat and drink; so God hath planted in the soul, (least it should pine away) a spiritual appetite, an earnest longing and desiring after that which is the most necessary good of the soul; for the soul hath that which the body hath, taste, and smell, &c. though in a more sublime and divine sense, but as really and truly, as we shall see afterwards. Now our blessed Saviour is this spiritual food of the soul, He is the bread of life that came down from Heaven, He is the true Manna, He is the true Tree of life in Paradise, in the Church of God the true Paradise, He is the true Shewbread, He is the true Lamb of God, He, considered with all the blessed prerogatives and privileges and comforts we have by him, is called meat or food for divers respects.