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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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1Here is meant not only choosing by eternal election to happiness, but a choosing to office, there is a choosing to grace and glory, and a choosing to office. Here it is as well meant a choosing to office as to grace and glory. God as he chose Christ to grace and glory, so he chose him to the office of Mediatorship. Christ did not choose himself, he was no usurper, No man calls himself to the office, as it is in Hebrews, but Christ was called and appointed of God, he was willing indeed to the work, he took it voluntary upon him, but as Mediator ⟨p. 19⟩God chose him, God the Father and he joining together.
1Here is meant not onely choosing by eternall election to happinesse, but a choosing to office, there is a choosing to grace and glory, and a choosing to office. Here it is as well meant a choosing to office as to grace and glory. God as he chose Christ to grace and glory, so he chose him to the office of Mediatorship. Christ did not choose himselfe, he was no usurper, No man cals himself to the office, as it is in Hebrews, but Christ was called and appointed of God, he was willing indeed to the worke, hee tooke it voluntary upon him, but as Mediator ⟨p. 19⟩God chose him, God the Father and he joyning together.
- 1Christ chosen to his office.
If we respect eternal salvation or grace or office,1 Christ was chosen in respect of his Man-hood: For as it is well observed by Divines, Christ is the Head of all that are predestinate, and the humane Nature of Christ could not merit its choice, it could not merit its incarnation, it could not merit union with the God-head, it was merely from grace. How could Christs Man-hood deserve any thing of God before it was? Things must have a subsistence before they can work: Our blessed Saviour is the pattern of all election, and his Man-hood could not merit to be knit to the second person, as how could it being a creature? Therefore the knitting of the humane nature of Christ to his divine, it is called the grace of Union, the choosing of the humane Nature of Christ to be so gracious and glorious, it was of grace.