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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
THE CHURCHES COMPLAINT AND Confidence.THE CHVRCHES COMPLAINT AND Confidence.
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.
ISAIAH 64.6, 7, 8. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy Name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now O Lord thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thine hands.
ISAIAH 64.6, 7, 8. But we are all as an uncleane thing, and all our righteousn•sse are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy Name, that stirreth up himselfe to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now O Lord thou art our Father, wee are the clay, and thou our potter, and wee are all the worke of thine hands.
THE words are part of a blessed form of prayer, prescribed to the Church long before they were in captivity. It begins at the 15. verse of the former Chapter, Look down from Heaven, behold from the habitation ⟨p. 278⟩of thy holiness, &c. The blessed Prophet Isaiah, was carried with the wings of Prophetical spirit over many years, and sees the time to come, the time of the Captivity; and God by his Spirit doth direct them a Prayer, and this is part of the form. For God in mercy to his people, as he foresaw before what would become of them; so he vouchsafes them comfort before hand, and likewise he prescribes a form of prayer before hand.1 It is very useful to use forms; the 102. Psalm, it is a form of pouring out the soul to God, when any man is in misery, as you see in the Preface (but that by the way) These verses are a part of a form prescribed for the pouring forth an afflicted soul, We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness, &c. The words they are,