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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. › We all.THE CHVRCHES COMPLAINT AND Confidence. › We all.
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.
How are we all guilty?1
- 1The best men guilty of the sins of the times.
We are all guilty in this respect, we receive some taint and soil from the times we live in,1 either our zeal is weakened, we do not grieve so much for the sins of the times, and who is not guilty in this respect? We do not grieve and lament as we should: as S. Paul tells the Corinthians, 2they should have been sorry and humbled; they were guilty of the sin of the incestuous person, because they were not humbled for it. We are thus far guilty at least the best of us, that we do not sorrow for the common sins. Alas how many sins are there that every body may see in the times in all ranks? In Pastors, what unfaithfulness ⟨p. 292⟩and […] Governors and in places of justice; what crying of the poor and men oppressed; and in all ranks of people we see a general security, we see filthiness, and hear oaths, for which the Land mourns, as Jeremiah saith, Jer. 23. These and such like sins provoke God and solicit the vengeance of God, and will have no nay till they have pulled down vengeance; Who hath been so much humbled for these sins as he ought? Perhaps our selves are not personally guilty of them: but are they not our sins so far as we are not abased for them and oppose them, and repress them as we should in our places and standings, whether we be Ministers or Magistrates? Thus far we are guilty all, therefore the Prophet might well say, We all are as an unclean thing, &c.
We are all guilty in this respect, we receive some taint and soyle from the times we live in,