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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.
The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence.
The Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence.
How doth the Kingdom of Heaven, the Gospel and means of grace suffer violence.
How doth the Kingdome of Heaven, the Gospell and meanes of grace suffer violence.
First, because when these good things were revealed by John Baptist and then by Christ,1 and after by the Disciples and Apostles, many thronged into the Church, which is the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven: they all pressed to be of the Church, to hear the Word of God. They hung as it were upon the word of Christ; ⟨p. 234⟩upon his mouth;2 they pressed so, that they trod one upon another; and it is said they all came out to hear John Baptist, Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region round about Jordan, so that in regard of the multitude there was violence.
First, because when these good things were revealed by Iohn Baptist and then by Christ,