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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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Again, as in the bodily life, there is a stomach, a power to work out of the meat that ⟨p. 179⟩which is for strength and nourishment: so in the soul, there is faith the spiritual mouth and stomach of the soul to work and draw out of Christ whatsoever is for the comfort and nourishment of it; as there is comfort in Christ, so the Spirit of God gives a man a hand, a mouth as it were, gives a man faith to work out of Christ somewhat for comfort; what were food if there were not a stomach to digest it, to make it a mans own? so what were Christ if we had not faith to lay hold on him?
Againe, as in the bodily life, there is a stomack, a power to worke out of the meate that ⟨p. 179⟩which is for strength and nourishment: so in the soule, there is faith the spirituall mouth and stomack of the soule to worke and draw out of Christ whatsoever is for the comfort and nourishment of it; as there is comfort in Christ, so the Spirit of God gives a man a hand, a mouth as it were, gives a man faith to worke out of Christ somewhat for comfort; what were food if there were not a stomack to digest it, to make it a mans owne? so what were Christ if wee had not faith to lay hold on him?
Again thirdly, as our life is nourished and maintained with that which is dead, with dead things, so the chief dish that maintaineth and nourisheth the life of the soul (as I said before) is Christ crucified, God forbid (saith the Apostle) that I should rejoice in any thing but in Christ crucified, when the soul of a poor sinner is pursued with accusations from Satan and his own conscience, when they take part with God against him, whether runs it? to the city of refuge, it runs to Christ, to Christ crucified, thither the soul flies being pursued with the guilt of sin, to the horns of the Altar, as Joab did when he was pursued, but with better success, for he was pulled from thence, but the soul that flies to Christ crucified, to the death of Christ, to Christ abased, to his satisfying the wrath of God by his death, and making of us friends with God, there it holds, there it lives, and