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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
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.
How do we know that these words in the Prophet Isaiah are fitly appliable to Christ? By the greatest authority that ever was from the beginning of the world, by the immediate voice of God the Father from Heaven, who applies these words in Isaiah to Christ, Mat. 3. in his inauguration when he was baptised, This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, this is that my Son, that beloved, [Greek or Hebrew], the beloved Son, so beloved that my soul delights in him, he is capable of my whole love, I may pour out my whole love upon him, in whom I am well pleased, it is the same with that here, in whom my soul delighteth, the one expresseth the other.
How doe we know that these words in the Prophet Isaiah are fitly appliable to Christ? By the greatest authority that ever was from the beginning of the world, by the immediate voice of God the Father from Heaven, who applies these words in Isaiah to Christ, Mat. 3. in his inauguration when he was baptised, This is my Beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased, this is that my Sonne, that beloved, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the beloved Sonne, so beloved that my soule delights in him, he is capable of my whole love, I may powre out my whole love upon him, in whom I am well pleased, it is the same with that heere, in whom my soule delighteth, the one expresseth the other.
How, and in what respect is Christ thus beloved of God?1
- 1Christ beloved of God.