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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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We are ashamed of a little unkindness to men; But when we consider how unkind we have been to God, that thought not his dear Son and Heaven and happiness too much for us; besides other favours that he protects and clothes and feeds us every day, and yet we have not been answerable: these considerations would humble us proportionable to our carriage to men: Can we be ashamed to offer an unkindness to men, and are we not ashamed, cannot we be abased with this that we have carried our selves so towards God? It comes from Atheism and infidelity of heart, that either we believe not these things to be good, or else that we have not our part and portion in them, could we ever be so dead and dull hearted else?
We are ashamed of a little unkindnesse to men; But when we consider how unkind we have been to God, that thought not his deare Sonne and Heaven and happinesse too much for us; besides other favours that he protects and cloaths and feeds us every day, and yet we have not been answerable: these considerations would humble us proportionable to our carriage to men: Can we be ashamed to offer an unkindnesse to men, and are we not ashamed, cannot we be abased with this that we have carried our selves so towards God? It comes from Atheisme and infidelity of heart, that either we beleeve not these things to be good, or else that we haue not our part and portion in them, could we ever be so dead and dull hearted else?
3Again, that we may be humbled, let us call to mind, now in this day of Humiliation, our special sins, we may soon know them, our consciences and our enemies will upbraid us for them, & we are loath to hear of them above all, either by the ministry or by our friends, we wish above all that the preacher would not speak of them & fret it he do, and our hearts run upon them above all. So let us search our false hearts which way they run: and now in the day of our abasement, let us think what would lie heaviest on our conscience, if God should take us now with sickness or sudden death; let us think with our selves what is the sin ⟨p. 285⟩