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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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1Take a man that is under the base Law of ambition, a proud person, see how it tyrannizeth over him; it makes him forget blood, and kindred, all the bonds of nature, he will kill his brethren to make his way; as you know in our own Stories, such Tyrants, if there were not Stories enow in this kind, daily experience shows it. Where the Law of ambition and pride reigns, it makes the heart ⟨p. 21⟩wherein this Tyrant sets up his Throne, to forget all bonds whatsoever, of nature, and justice. You know whose speech it was; If the Law must be violated, it must be for a Kingdom: but men will do it for far less; we see what men will do for a base place to command others in this world, (when they are conscious of their own ill courses, and commanding corruptions) and all to give way to the base affection of ambition. A touch is enough of these things, for experience witnesseth, and goes along with me. All men that are not in Christ, they have some predominant sin, either some base sin, or some more refined sin, and lust, that keeps them from Christ and salvation, and this tyrannizeth over them.
1Take a man that is under the base Law of ambition, a proud person, see how it tyrannizeth over him; it makes him forget blood, and kinred, all the bonds of nature, he will kill his brethren to make his way; as you know in our owne Stories, such Tyrants, if there were not Stories enow in this kind, daily experience shewes it. Where the Law of ambition and pride raignes, it makes the heart ⟨p. 21⟩wherein this Tyrant sets up his Throne, to forget all bonds whatsoever, of nature, and justice. You know whose speech it was; If the Law must be violated, it must be for a Kingdome: but men will doe it for farre lesse; we see what men will doe for a base place to command others in this world, (when they are conscious of their owne ill courses, and commanding corruptions) and all to give way to the base affection of ambition. A touch is enough of these things, for experience witnesseth, and goes along with me. All men that are not in Christ, they have some predominant sinne, either some base sinne, or some more refined sinne, and lust, that keepes them from Christ and salvation, and this tyrannizeth over them.