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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 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 ⟨p. 180⟩there it will continue for ever; this keeps the soul alive.
Againe thirdly, as our life is nourished and maintained with that which is dead, with dead things, so the chiefe dish that maintaineth and nourisheth the life of the soule (as I said before) is Christ crucified, God forbid (saith the Apostle) that I should rejoyce in any thing but in Christ crucified, when the soule of a poore sinner is pursued with accusations from Satan and his owne 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 soule flies being pursued with the guilt of sinne, to the hornes of the Altar, as Ioab did when hee was pursued, but with better successe, for hee was pulled from thence, but the soule 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 ⟨p. 180⟩there it will continue for ever; this keepes the soule alive.
And then again, as in meat, before it can nourish us, there must be an union, an assimilation, a turning of it into us; so Christ, except he be made one with us by faith, unless there be an union between him and us, he can never nourish and comfort us savingly.