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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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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⟩that would afflict me most? that would stagger me most, that would shake my Faith most? whether it be filthiness, or profaneness, or swearing, or injustice, and whether have I made satisfaction or no? Let me examine, if God should strike me with his Arrow now, what sin would rob me of my comfort and make me afraid to yield my soul to God. Now think of it, his is the way to be humbled: you may now bring your selves to consider of that that at other times you will not give your selves leisure to do. What are days of fasting for, but to give our selves leisure, that we may not think of meat and drink and business? These days should be days of rest, that we may think of that that concerns our souls: take the advantage when thou rests from thinking of other business, think with thine own soul what will lie heaviest upon thy soul. This is required to Humiliation; this real Humiliation that is outward, it is a protestation of the inward, and verbal Humiliation is but an expression of what we do inwardly.
3Againe, that we may be humbled, let us call to minde, now in this day of Humiliation, our speciall sinnes, we may soone know them, our consciences and our enemies will upbraid us for them, & we are loath to heare of them above all, either by the ministery or by our friends, we wish above al that the preacher would not speak of them & fret it he doe, and our hearts run upon them above all. So let us search our false hearts which way they runne: and now in the day of our abasement, let us thinke what would lie heaviest on our conscience, if God should take us now with sicknesse or sudden death; let us thinke with our selves what is the sinne ⟨p. 285⟩