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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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Here is will, I but what power and strength hath he to give it?
Heere is will, I but what power and strength hath he to give it?
He is so the Son of man as that he is also the Son of God, therefore we are said (Acts 20.) to be redeemed with the blood of God, Christ by his eternal Spirit, by his God-head offered himself a Sacrifice for sin; so that he can give it because he is God.
He is so the Sonne of man as that hee is also the Sonne of God, therefore we are said (Acts 20.) to bee redeemed with the blood of God, Christ by his eternall Spirit, by his God-head offered himselfe a Sacrifice for sinne; so that he can give it because he is God.
But what authority hath he?
He is Sealed to do it, that's the third, that is, he hath authority, for authority is here expressed by Sealing. Now Christ is said to be Sealed, first, because there is the impression of God upon him, even as the seal imprints in the wax the likeness of that which is in it, so God hath imprinted in Christ his own likeness, he is the Image of God, for Christ as he is God, is the character of his Father, and his humane nature is likewise as like God as nature can express, we saw (saith the Apostle) his glory, the glory as of the only begotten Son of God, we saw a kind of divinity in him as much as humane nature could receive, the likeness of God sparkled in him; therefore he is said to be Sealed, but that is not all nor the principal here meant.