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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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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.
And then againe, as in meate, before it can nourish us, there must be an union, an assimulation, a turning of it into us; so Christ, except hee be made one with us by faith, unlesse there bee an union betweene him and us, hee can never nourish and comfort us savingly.
Again, as we oft eat, and after we have received food once, yet we eat again every day, because there is a decay of strength, and there are still new businesses, new occasions that require new strength, and therefore there is need of a continual repairing of our strength by food: Even so there is a perpetual exigence, a continual need that the soul hath to feed upon Christ, upon the promises of Christ, and the prerogatives by Christ, because every day we have fresh impediments, f•esh assaults, and therefore we have need to fetch fresh supplies and refreshment from Christ, to have meat from Christ every day, to live on Christ not only at the first, but continually, that as our corruptions, and temptations, and infirmities return every day, so every day to feed on Christ for the repairing of our spiritual strength; especially we are to make daily use of the death of Christ, for howsoever the death of Christ be transient in respect of the act of it (as one of the Ancients saith) yet the fruit of it remains for our daily comfort and refreshment, his blood runs every day in the Church afresh, ⟨p. 181⟩like a fountain always poured out for Judah and Jerusalem to wash in, it always runs, that is, in regard of Gods imputation, in regard of the fruit that comes to the soul, and therefore we should make daily use of it for the comfort and strength of our souls upon all occasions, We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins, he is now an Intercessor in Heaven, he continually applies the fruit of his death now by his intercession in Heaven.