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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. › What doth it in Christ?THE SPIRITVALL IVBILE. › What doth it in Christ?
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It is said here,1 that by Christ we have spiritual liberty and freedom, not from sin, and death, but from the law of sin, and of death. It is one thing to be freed from sin, and death, and another thing to be freed from the law of them: for we are not indeed freed from sin, and death, but from the law of sin, and death; that is, from the condemning power of sin; that though sin be in us; yet it doth not condemn us: and though we die, yet the sting is pulled out, death is but a passage to a better life. So I say in Justification, we are freed from the condemning power of sin, and in sanctification, from the commanding power of sin. When we are knit once to Christ, we have the obedience of Christ, ours in justification: and the holiness of Christ is derived to us, as from the head to the members in sanctification, and so we are freed from the law of sin. To understand this a little better, the same Spirit that sanctified the natural body, the humane nature of Christ, whereby he became bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh: the same Spirit doth sanctify the mystical body of Christ, that it may be bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh. For before we come to heaven, Christ must not only be bone of our bone, &c. that is, in his Incarnation, but we must be bone of his bone, &c. that is, we must have natures like Christ, not only flesh and blood; for (so a reprobate hath flesh and blood, as Christ hath) but we must have ⟨p. 50⟩his Spirit altering and changing our nature, that instead of a proud, disobedient, rebellious nature, now it must be a holy and humble, and meek nature; (together with humane frailty, for that we carry about with us;) then the Spirit of life derived from Christ, makes us bone of his bone. For indeed, in his humane nature, being bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, he made us bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh: he became man, that we might partake of the divine nature, being partakers of the divine Spirit. So that now the Spirit of life in Christ, when we are knit to him, is a Spirit of sanctification, altering our natures, and working in our hearts a disposition like Christs; that we judge, as Christ judgeth, and choose, as Christ chooseth, and aim at Gods glory as Christ did. For there is the same mind in us, that was in Christ, Philip. 2.2