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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. › Unclean.THE CHVRCHES COMPLAINT AND Confidence. › Vncleane.
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.
Unclean.
Vncleane.
It is a comparison taken from the Leprosy, or some other contagious disease: those that were tainted of them were separated from the Congregation seven days,1 or some set time. So it is with sin, especially the sins of this people, they had sinned grievously, and were severed from their land, not seven days, but seventy years, the leprosy and filthiness of their sins and lives was such.
It is a comparison taken from the Leprosie, or some other contagious disease: those that were tainted of them were separated from the Congregation seven daies,1 or some set time. So it is with sin, especially the sins of this people, they had sinned grievously, and were severed from their land, not seven daies, but seventy yeares, the leprosie and filthinesse of their sins and lives was such.
- 1Sin a leprosy.Sin a leprosie.
Indeed sin, especially the sin of nature, it is a leprosy, contagious, pestilential, and as a leprosy it spreads over all the parts and powers of body and soul. Take a man that is not changed, he hath a leprous eye, full of adultery, he hath a leprous uncircumcised •are, ask him how he judgeth of discourses, and Sermons, he relisheth nothing but that which is frothy, and vain; plain substantial solid discourses either in hearing, or reading, will not down with him, he hath a leprous judgement, his eyes, and ears. and tongue are defiled, and corrupt, he is vile, and abominable in his speeches, he is uncircumcised in all,