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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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That is, thou hast hid thy comfort from us. ⟨p. 322⟩God hath a double face,1 a face that shines on our souls in peace and joy and comfort, when he saith to the soul, I am thy Salvation: And his face that shines on the outward estate, that keeps misery and sickness and danger from us, and bestows good things on us. And God takes away his face from us in regard of the inward man, when he gives us no peace: but leaves us to spiritual desertion. In regard of the outward man, God hides his face, when he gives us up to Pestilence and war and sickness and miseries in this life, when he gives us up to outward desertion.
That is, thou hast hid thy comfort from us. ⟨p. 322⟩God hath a double face,1 a face that shines on our soules in peace and joy and comfort, when he saith to the soule, I am thy Salvation: And his face that shines on the outward estate, that keepes misery and sicknesse and danger from us, and bestowes good things on us. And God takes away his face from us in regard of the inward man, when he gives us no peace: but leaves us to spirituall desertion. In regard of the outward man, God hides his face, when he gives us up to Pestilence and warre and sicknesse and miseries in this life, when he gives us up to outward desertion.
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Sometimes God shines on wicked men in outward things, but he hides his face for peace of conscience: and sometimes Gods children have his face shining on their conscience, but he hides his face in respect of outward things, sometimes he shines in neither of both: as at this time he neither shined on these blessed men in outward favours, for they were in captivity, nor in the sense of his love and favour, for they were in desolation, and eclipsed every way.