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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
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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.
In divers respects. To instance in a few: but first, you must know that as the soule 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 meate and drinke; so God hath planted in the soule, (least it should pine away) a spirituall appetite, an earnest longing and desiring after that which is the most necessary good of the soule; for the soule 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 spirituall food of the soule, He is the bread of life that came downe from Heaven, He is the true Manna, He is the true Tree of life in Paradice, in the Church of God the true Paradice, He is the true Shewbread, He is the true Lambe of God, He, considered with all the blessed prerogatives and priviledges and comforts we have by him, is called meate or food for divers respects.