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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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Real humiliation indeed, that is, our humbling our selves by fasting, especially when it is joined with reformation of our wicked ways, or else it is a mockery of God, as it is in Isaiah 58. to hang down the head for a while, and in the mean time to have a hard heart, to shut up our bowels to our brethren: but that is a real kind of humiliation when we think our selves unworthy of the creatures of meat or drink, of any refreshing: for this humiliation of fasting is a kind of profession (though we speak not so) that we are unworthy of these things. But all is nothing, without inward humiliation of the soul; verbal humiliation is in words (as we shall see after in confession) and it must come from inward humiliation of spirit.1
Reall humiliation indeed, that is, our humbling our selves by fasting, especially when it is joyned with reformation of our wicked waies, or else it is a mockery of God, as it is in Isaiah 58. to hang downe the head for a while, and in the meane time to have a hard heart, to shut up our bowells to our brethren: but that is a reall kinde of humiliation when we thinke our selves unworthy of the creatures of meate or drinke, of any refreshing: for this humiliation of fasting is a kinde of profession (though we speake not so) that we are unworthy of these things. But all is nothing, without inward humiliation of the soule; verball humiliation is in words (as we shall see after in confession) and it must come from inward humiliation of spirit.