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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.
2Seek him in his Ordinances; hear the Word of God, thy face Lord will I seek. God invites you •o seek his face now by fasting and humiliation, seek his face in this ordinance: here is the blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Though outwardly God hide his face in some regards; yet when he offers outward liberties, refuse them not: he offers his face to us now in Christ, seek by prayer and other means holy communion with him still; and never leave seeking till you have got a glance of him: and stir up your selves to lay hold on him, that he would show his loving countenance upon you.
2Seeke him in his Ordinances; heare the Word of God, thy face Lord will I seeke. God invites you •o seeke his face now by fasting and humiliation, seeke his face in this ordinance: here is the blessed Trinity, Father, Sonne and Holy Ghost. Though outwardly God hide his face in some regards; yet when he offers outward liberties, refuse them not: hee offers his face to us now in Christ, seeke by prayer and other meanes holy communion with him still; and never leave seeking till you have got a glance of him: and stir up your selves to lay hold on him, that he would shew his loving countenance upon you.
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Those that turn their backs on Gods ordinances and in rebellion to his commandments ⟨p. 325⟩live in sins against conscience, can they wonder that he hides his face from them, when they turn their backs on him? Rebellious persons that will not yield meekly to Gods Ordinances and submit to his Commandments, do they wonder that God takes good things from them? When we sin we turn our backs upon God and our face to the Devil and the world and pleasures: when men turn their faces to sin, to pleasures and vanity, and their backs on God, do they wonder that he suffers them to melt and pine away? Let us do as the Flowers do, the Marigold, &c. they turn themselves to the Sun: let our souls do so, let us turn our selves to God in meditation and prayers, striving and wrestling with him, look to him, eye him in his Ordinances & promises, and have communion with him all the ways we can. Let our souls open and shut with him, when he hides his face let us droop, as the Flowers do till the Sun come again. When the waters fall the Flowers droop and hold down their heads, when the Sun riseth the next morning up they go again, as if there had been never a shower: So when we have not daily comfort of Spirit in peace of conscience, let us never rest seeking Gods face in his Ordinances and by Prayer, and that will cheer a drooping soul, as the Sun beams do the flagging flowers. Then you may know that Gods face shines upon you in some measure when he gives you means and gives you hearts