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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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1First, by considering the danger we are in: danger felt or feared,2 it will make a man lay hold. When a child feels the smart of the rod,1 he lays hold upon his father or his mothers hand, strike no more, when the children of God feel the smart of his judgements then they cry, O no more. The cry of the child prevails with the mother, though it cannot speak oft-times: So when in the sense of sin and misery we cry to God, we move his bowels with crying. There is no question but the serious apprehension of danger felt, doth awaken the soul and stir it up. It is so also in danger feared, a danger feared with belief will work as if it were present: for a man that hath a spirit of faith to •ee that unless God be appeased with good courses, he will punish as surely as ⟨p. 309⟩if the judgement were upon him. Faith makes things present, both good and ill, and it makes a man sensible of things that are not yet upon him. This is the difference between a Christian and another man, another man puts the evil day far off from him: but a believing Christian by a spirit of faith sees God (except he be turned away by hearty and humble repentance) ready to seize upon him, and so he walks humbly in all his courses. So that danger felt or feared by a spirit of faith awakens and stirs up the soul to lay hold on God.