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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,3 in a Kingdom there is glory and excellency: (where is it to be had else?) all the glory and sufficiency and contentment that Earth can afford.
Againe,3 in a Kingdome there is glory and excellency: (where is it to be had else?) all the glory and sufficiency and contentment that Earth can afford.
- 3Glory.
Now in that the state of the Church by reason of the glorious Gospel is called a Kingdom. First it is a free state: as indeed the Word doth make us free from former bondage. In particular the Gospel of Christ it frees us from Jewish bondage, and from all kind of bondage spiritual.1 If the Son make you free ye are free indeed. A Christian is above all, he is over sin and Satan and the Law, he is free & supreme and independent all are under him. A Christian ⟨p. 232⟩as a Christian, he is under none but Christ, under no creature.2 The spiritual man judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. I speak not of civill differences: But as a Christian is a member of Christ, and a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven, he hath a kind of independent state, his conscience is only subject to God and Christ; but all earthly things he commands, they are under him.
Now in that the state of the Church by reason of the glorious Gospell is called a Kingdome. First it is a free state: as indeed the Word doth make us free from former bondage. In particular the Gospell of Christ it frees us from Jewish bondage, and from all kind of bondage spirituall.