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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.
Besides others, there are three main significations of these words, The Kingdom of Heaven.
Besides others, there are three maine significations of these words, The Kingdome of Heaven.
1First, the famous, leading, proper signification is the state, and place where God himself, and his people are most glorious, The Kingdom of Heaven;1 all the other significations end in that. But secondly, because all that shall come into that glorious Kingdom, they must be Kings here first in the state of the kingdom of grace,2 which consists in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, in the graces and comforts of the Spirit, therefore the state of grace comes to have the name too of The Kingdom of Heaven ▪ And thirdly,3 because grace in this world cannot be attained without an order, and means, and dispensation from God; hereupon, the dispensation of the means whereby we come to have grace is also called The Kingdom. The unfolding the mysteries of ⟨p. 227⟩salvation in the Gospel, is called the Kingdom of God. As Christ saith, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, that is, the preaching of the Gospel, therefore the Gospel is called the Gospel of the Kingdom, and the Word of the Kingdom, because by this Word we come to have grace, and by grace, glory; there is no glory without grace, and no grace without the Word, one makes way for another. The preaching of the Gospel doth cause a Church (which is the Kingdom of Christ) wherein he rules by the Sceptre of his Word, by which Word, Christ and all his riches, and glory, and prerogatives are unfolded, and thereby grace is wrought, and grace leads to glory. This connection and subordination is to be observed.