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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
THE SPIRITUAL JUBILEE. › And of Death.THE SPIRITVALL IVBILE. › And of Death.
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.
And of Death.
We are not only under the law of sin,1 but also of death. Now, there is a death in this world; the separation of the soul from the body;1 but that is not so much meant here: for when we are in Christ, we are not free from this death.
We are not onely under the law of sinne,1 but also of death. Now, there is a death in this world; the separation of the soule from the body;1 but that is not so much meant here: for when we are in Christ, we are not free from this death.
- 1We are under the law of death.
- 1Natural.Naturall.
But there a is worse death,2 which is a separation of the soul, from the favour and love of God, and from the sanctifying, and comforting Spirit of God: when the Spirit of God doth not comfort, and sanctify the soul, it is a death.1 For as the soul is the life of the body; the body hath but a communicated life from the union it hath with the soul. The soul hath a life of its own, when it is out of the body, but the body hath its life from the soul; so it is with the soul, when there is an estrangement of the soul from the Spirit of God, & Christ, sanctifying and comforting and cheering it, then there is a death of the soul: the soul can no more act any thing that is savingly, and holily good, then the body can be without the soul. And as the body without the soul, is a noisome odious carcass, offensive in the eyes of its dearest friends: so the soul without the Spirit of Christ, quickening and seasoning it, and putting a comeliness and beauty upon it, it is odious. All the clothes, and flowers