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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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There is matter of wonder likewise in that from whence he is a servant;2 whence comes it that Christ is a servant? It is from the wondrous love of God, and the wondrous love of Christ, to be so abased, it was wondrous love in God to give him to us to be so abased, and ⟨p. 12⟩the wondrous misery we were in, that we could not otherwise be freed from; for such was the pride of man, that he being man would exalt himself to be like God, God became man, he became a servant to expiate our pride in Adam, so that it is wondrous in the spring of it. There was no such love as Christs to become a servant, there was no such misery as we were in out of which we were delivered by this abasement of Christ, becoming a servant, so it is wondrous in that regard, springing from the infinite love and mercy of God,2 which is greater in the work of Redemption, and Reconciliation, then in the Creation of the world, for the distance between nothing and something was less then the distance between sin and happiness. For nothing adds no opposition, but to be in a sinful state there is opposition, therefore it was greater love and mercy for God when we were sinful, (and so obnoxious to eternal destruction) to make us of sinners not only men, but to make us happy, to make us heirs of heaven out of a sinful and cursed estate, then to make us of nothing something, to make us men in Adam, for there God prevailed over nothing, but here his mercy triumphed over that which is opposite to God, over sinfulness and cursedness. To show that the creature cannot be so low, but there is somewhat in God above the misery of the creature, his mercy shall triumph over the basest estate where he ⟨p. 13⟩will show mercy, therefore there is mercy above all mercy, and love above all love, in that Christ was a servant.
There is matter of wonder likewise in that from whence he is a servant;2 whence comes it that Christ is a servant? It is from the wondrous love of God, and the wondrous love of Christ, to be so abased, it was wondrous love in God to give him to us to be so abased, and