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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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Alas we may justly turn the complaint on our selves,1 that whilst we spend our strength in violence about the base and mean things of this life, the Kingdom of Heaven it offereth violence to us, and yet we will none of it. How doth God beseech us in the Ministry, We beseech you to be reconciled, 2and Why will ye die O house of Israel? As if the Gospel and grace were commodities that God were ⟨p. 244⟩weary off, he comes and puts them upon us whether we will or no, and yet we refuse them, we are so far from offering violence to the Gospel and to grace, that God offers violence to us, as if we should do him a favour to receive the Gospel and to do good to our own souls, and yet the vile, proud, base heart of man will not regard and receive these heavenly things. How will it justify Gods sentence at the day of judgement, when he shall allege there was a discovery of such things unto you, and instead of violence in seeking them, you slighted and neglected them? Nay; there is a worse sort of men then these, those that oppose the Kingdom of Heaven in the means of it, in the persons of it, what kind of men are these, think you?
Alas we may justly turne the complaint on our selves,1 that whilest we spend our strength in violence about the base and meane things of this life, the Kingdome of Heaven it offereth violence to us, and yet we will none of it. How doth God beseech us in the Ministery, Wee beseech you to bee reconciled, 2and Why will yee die O house of Israel? As if the Gospell and grace were commodities that God were ⟨p. 244⟩weary off, he comes and puts them upon us whether we will or no, and yet we refuse them, we are so farre from offering violence to the Gospell and to grace, that God offers violence to us, as if we should doe him a favour to receive the Gospell and to doe good to our owne soules, and yet the vile, proud, base heart of man will not regard and receive these heavenly things. How will it justifie Gods sentence at the day of judgement, when hee shall alleadge there was a discovery of such things unto you, and instead of violence in seeking them, you sleighted and neglected them? Nay; there is a worse sort of men then these, those that oppose the Kingdome of Heaven in the meanes of it, in the persons of it, what kinde of men are these, thinke you?