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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, 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.
Againe, to whet our appetite after Christ, consider the necessity wee have of spirituall strength and comfort: when a man considers that he hath a journey to take, hee will eate to enable him to his journey, as Elias was bid to rise up and eate because he had a journey to go, we are all to take a journey as farre as Heaven, and we are to travell through the wildernesse of this world, and wee 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 sicknesse will come, and death will surprize 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 owne, yet a time of deseition, a time of tryall will come: Thus the necessity of spirituall strength will force us to feede upon Christ.
Again to get us a stomach to these things, let us converse with those that are spiritual, with those that are heavenly minded, that have tasted of heavenly things, when we see them delight in reading, delight in hearing, when we see them contemplate of Heaven and heavenly things, on Christ and the benefits we have ⟨p. 187⟩by Christ, on the blessed condition of a better life and of the world to come, when we see these persons that are better then our selves, that have less cause then we, take such pains for their souls, we will be ashamed of our own neglect, and it will be the discourse of a soul presently with it self, surely there is some excellent strength and comfort in these things, some extraordinary sweetness and refreshment that these men find, that they so fall to them: it is a great advantage to converse with those that are spiritual.