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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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Then again thirdly: Exercise getteth a stomach, let us every day spend our spiritual strength in spiritual exercises, in resisting tentations, in withstanding the snares of Satan, in bearing those daily crosses that God lays upon us, live as Christians should live, and the exercise of a Christian life will enforce us to go unto Christ to feed on him, to fetch from him spiritual strength; when in our daily exercise we shall see the continual need we have of pardon for daily sins, of comfort and strength against daily corruptions and infirmities, this will make us feed on Christ and on the promises made in him, not only on the promise of forgiveness, but on the promise of a supply of necessary grace, on that sweet promise, that ⟨p. 186⟩he will not quench the smoking flax nor break the bruised reed, feed on him as a King to subdue our corruptions, &c. the daily exercise of a Christian life will force us unto Christ.
Then againe thirdly: Exercise getteth a stomacke, let us every day spend our spirituall strength in spirituall exercises, in resisting tentations, in withstanding the snares of Satan, in bearing those daily crosses that God laies upon us, live as Christians should live, and the exercise of a Christian life will inforce us to goe unto Christ to feed on him, to fetch from him spirituall strength; when in our daily exercise we shall see the continuall neede wee have of pardon for daily sinnes, of comfort and strength against daily corruptions and infirmities, this will make us feede on Christ and on the promises made in him, not onely on the promise of forgivenesse, but on the promise of a supply of necessary grace, on that sweet promise, that ⟨p. 186⟩he will not quench the smoaking flax nor breake the bruised reede, feede on him as a King to subdue our corruptions, &c. the daily exercise of a Christian life will force us unto Christ.
Again, to whet our appetite after Christ, consider the necessity we have of spiritual strength and comfort: when a man considers that he hath a journey to take, he will eat to enable him to his journey, as Elijah was bid to rise up and eat because he had a journey to go, we are all to take a journey as far as Heaven, and we are to travel through the wilderness of this world, and we shall be daily assaulted (besides our inward corruptions) with divers tentations, and therefore we had need every day to fetch strength from Christ: and consider that sickness will come, and death will surprise us, and if we have not Christ we are wretched creatures without him: and though we have applied Christ to our selves and made him our own, yet a time of desertion, a time of trial will come: Thus the necessity of spiritual strength will force us to feed upon Christ.