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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
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.
We all fade as a leaf.
We all fade as a leafe.
Wicked men are as leaves,1 and worse, they are as chaff. Godly men, because they have a consistence, and are rooted in Christ, and set in a good soil, they are trees of righteousness. But godly men in the state of their nature, and in regard of this life they are as leaves: wicked men are as leaves ⟨p. 316⟩every way, and as chaff which the wind bloweth away, as we shall see afterwards.
Wicked men are as leaves,1 and worse, they are as chaffe. Godly men, because they have a consistence, and are rooted in Christ, and set in a good soile, they are trees of righteousnesse. But godly men in the state of their nature, and in regard of this life they are as leaves: wicked men are as leaves ⟨p. 316⟩every way, and as chaffe which the winde bloweth away, as we shall see afterwards.
- 1Men fading as leaves.