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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Here is will, Christ will give it, why? because he is the Son of man. What use is there of these words in this place? why doth he not say which the Son of God shall give you?
Heere is will, Christ will give it, why? because he is the Sonne of man. What use is there of these words in this place? why doth he not say which the Sonne of God shall give you?
O the Son of God without the Son of man is indeed a Fountain of good things, but he is a sealed Fountain, alas of no comfort, our comfort is in Emanuel God-Man, all our comfort is to be brought back to God from whom we fell in Paradise, and we must be brought back again to God by God, but unless God had become man, man had never come back again to God, therefore all the union and communion we have with God it depends on ⟨p. 200⟩this first union of Christ with our nature, that the Son of God became the Son of man (as Saint Augustine saith) for now the next union that we become the Sons of God it comes from this, that God became man: and therefore he saith here, the Son of man shall give it you, you need not climb up to Heaven to fetch this food that endures to everlasting life, for the Son of God is come down from Heaven to Earth, to take the nature of man, and in that to die, in that to satisfy Gods wrath, and so to become this blessed and everlasting food. The Son of man, the second Adam, as by one man we all come to misery, so by the second Adam (by man) we are restored to a blessed condition again: therefore he saith here the Son of man, because in the humane nature all our salvation was wrought: indeed the worth and efficacy of our salvation comes from the divine nature, but it was wrought in mans nature, the divine nature could not work it alone. But I will not dwell on this.
O the Sonne of God without the Sonne of man is indeed a Fountaine of good things, but he is a sealed Fountaine, alas of no comfort, our comfort is in Emanuell God-Man, all our comfort is to be brought back to God from whom we fell in Paradise, and we must bee brought backe againe to God by God, but unlesse God had become man, man had never come backe againe to God, therefore all the union and communion we have with God it depends on