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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.
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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, ⟨p. 295⟩all are unclean, all his powers are defiled by nature.
Indeed sinne, especially the sinne of nature, it is a leprosie, contagious, pestilentiall, and as a leprosie it spreads over all the parts and powers of body and soule. Take a man that is not changed, he hath a leprous eye, full of adulterie, hee hath a leprous uncircumcised •are, aske him how he judgeth of discourses, and Sermons, hee relisheth nothing but that which is frothy, and vaine; plaine substantiall solid discourses either in hearing, or reading, will not downe with him, hee hath a leprous judgement, his eyes, and eares. and tongue are defiled, and corrupt, he is vile, and abhominable in his speeches, he is uncircumcised in all, ⟨p. 295⟩all are uncleane, all his powers are defiled by nature.
All the washings in the Law did signify this,1 the corruption and defilement of our natures, which needs another washing which they typified, a washing by the blood and Spirit of Christ. Christ came by water and blood, both in Justification and Sanctification. There is a Fountain opened for Judah and Jerusalem to wash in. All those washings showed a defilement spiritual, that needed a spiritual washing. This sin is a leprous contagious sin, therefore by nature we may all cry as the Leper, unclean, unclean, the best of us may take up that complaint as far as we are not renewed.