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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.
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 ⟨p. 26⟩you put upon a dead body, cannot make it but a stinking carcass: so all the moral virtues, and all the honours in this world put upon a man out of Christ, it makes him not a spiritual living soul: he is but a loathsome carrion a dead carcass in the sight of God, and of all that have the Spirit of God: for he is under death, he is stark, and stiff, unable to stir or move to any duty whatsoever, he hath no sense, nor motion. Though such men live a common, natural civill life, and walk up and down, yet they are dead men to God, and to a better life. The world is full of dead men, that are dead while they are alive, as S. Paul speaks of the Widow that lives in pleasures. A fearful estate, if we had Spiritual eyes to see it, and think of it.
But there a is worse death,2 which is a separation of the soule, 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 sanctifie the soule, it is a death.1 For as the soule is the life of the body; the body hath but a communicated life from the union it hath with the soule. The soule hath a life of its owne, when it is out of the body, but the body hath its life from the soule; so it is with the soule, when there is an estrangement of the soule from the Spirit of God, & Christ, sanctifying and comforting and chearing it, then there is a death of the soule: the soule can no more act any thing that is savingly, and holily good, then the body can be without the soule. And as the body without the soule, is a noysome odious carcasse, offensive in the eyes of its dearest friends: so the soule without the Spirit of Christ, quickening and seasoning it, and putting a comelinesse and beautie upon it, it is odious. All the cloathes, and flowers