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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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Which should teach us with what minds to converse in the hearing and reading of these things,1 with heavenly affections. And it shows likewise why worldlings and base people are no more affected with the things of the Gospel, because it is the Kingdom of Heaven. If it were of the world we should have it sought with eagerness enough, though it were a less matter then a Kingdom: but it is a Kingdom of Heaven remote from flesh and blood, there must be a new Spirit to work a new sight and a new taste, to work a change in the heart of man, and then he shall know the things of the Kingdom of Heaven. He must come out of the world that will see this Kingdom, as in Reve. 18. Come out of Babylon. A man must come ⟨p. 230⟩out of Antichrists Kingdom, to see the baseness of it, he cannot see it in the middest of it, so we must come out of the world if we would see the glorious Kingdom of Christ, it is a heavenly Kingdom. Therefore the greatest potentates of the world must abase themselves, there is no greatness in the world can help them to this heavenly Kingdom.
Which should teach us with what minds to converse in the hearing and reading of these things,1 with heavenly affections. And it shewes likewise why worldlings and base people are no more affected with the things of the Gospell, because it is the Kingdome of Heaven. If it were of the world we should have it sought with eagernesse enough, though it were a lesse matter then a Kingdome: but it is a Kingdome of Heaven remote from flesh and blood, there must be a new Spirit to worke a new sight and a new taste, to worke a change in the heart of man, and then he shall know the things of the Kingdome of Heaven. He must come out of the world that will see this Kingdome, as in Reve. 18. Come out of Babylon. A man must come ⟨p. 230⟩out of Antichrists Kingdome, to see the basenesse of it, he cannot see it in the middest of it, so we must come out of the world if we would see the glorious Kingdome of Christ, it is a heavenly Kingdome. Therefore the greatest potentates of the world must abase themselves, there is no greatnesse in the world can helpe them to this heavenly Kingdome.