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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
SAINT PAULS CHALLENGE. › Who shall be against us?SAINT PAVLS CHALLENGE. › Who shall be against us?
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And if God be with us, he is not so with us as to neglect us, he is so with us, as he hath ⟨p. 83⟩interest in the cause we have, and in our persons, he is with us as one with us, nay as in us by his Spirit, and whosoever toucheth us toucheth the apple of his eye. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Here is ground of courage in whatsoever may befall us, to stand it out in all conditions whatsoever. Nothing can sever Christ and a Christian: this body will never be beheaded: Christ will never be separated from his body, he will not loose the poorest member he hath. You see it is the duty of a Christian to be courageous, and undaunted in the cause of God, and from this ground, because God is with him, and who can be against him? Let all the world be against God, and against the cause that a Christian professeth, they do but kick against the pricks, they dash against a rock, as the waves that break themselves, they do not hurt the rock a whit, they do but cast stones upward that fall upon their heads again. Therefore it is a desperate cause that malicious spirits manage, who have more parts then grace, and arm themselves and their wits to hurt the people and Church of God, and slander his cause, and do all the hurt they can.
And if God be with us, hee is not so with us as to neglect us, he is so with us, as he hath ⟨p. 83⟩interest in the cause we have, and in our persons, hee is with us as one with us, nay as in us by his Spirit, and whosoever toucheth us toucheth the apple of his eye. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Here is ground of courage in whatsoever may befall us, to stand it out in all conditions whatsoever. Nothing can sever Christ and a Christian: this bodie will never be beheaded: Christ will never bee separated from his body, hee will not loose the poorest member he hath. You see it is the duty of a Christian to be couragious, and undaunted in the cause of God, and from this ground, because God is with him, and who can be against him? Let all the world bee against God, and against the cause that a Christian professeth, they doe but kicke against the prickes, they dash against a rocke, as the waves that breake themselves, they doe not hurt the rock a whit, they doe but cast stones upward that fall upon their heads againe. Therefore it is a desperate cause that malicious spirits manage, who have more parts then grace, and arme themselves and their wits to hurt the people and Church of God, and slander his cause, and doe all the hurt they can.