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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.
From the days of John Baptist until now.
From the daies of Iohn Baptist untill now.
Was there not a Kingdom of Heaven that suffered violence before John Baptists time,1 did the Kingdom of God begin then, was Christ a King, and was Heaven opened only then?
Was there not a Kingdome of Heaven that suffered violence before Iohn Baptists time,1 did the Kingdome of God begin then, was Christ a King, and was Heaven opened onely then?
- 1Quest.
I answer no,1 but now the things of God were more gloriously discovered; therefore John 1.51. Henceforth you shall see Heaven opened. The Kingdom of Heaven was opened now by the preaching of the Gospel more gloriously then before. Therefore the state of the Gospel is called the Kingdom of Heaven, partly in regard of the times before, and partly in regard of the times after.
I answer no,1 but now the things of God were more gloriously discovered; therefore