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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 then look to the cause we take in hand,2 and to our carriage in that cause, if our persons be good, be in covenant, and the cause good, and our conscience good, and our carriage suitable, then God will be with us. Let us make use of these principles, that we may be in love with the comfortable secure condition of a Christian; there is no state so glorious, so comfortable, so secure, and free from danger. If we were in heaven and should look down below upon all snares, and dangers, what would we care for them? Now if he be with us, and we with him, God is our habitation, we dwell in the secret of the Almighty, 2he is our high Tower, The way of wisdom is on high, to escape the snares below. Therefore let us raise our souls as high as heaven, and God is, and set our selves where our hopes are, where our God is, and we have set our selves in our Tower, that we have set God in our hearts, and set our selves in him; then we may overlook the devil, and men, and death, and danger and all. As a man that stands upon the top of a Rock, that is higher than all the waves, he overlooks them, and sees them break themselves upon the Rock: so when we see God with us, and our selves with him, by a Spirit o• comfort, we can overlook all with a holy ⟨p. 92⟩defiance, as the Apostle saith here, who can be against us? what can separate us? Oh! the excellent state of a Christian, when he is assured of his condition! Who would not labour for assurance that yields this abundant comfort in all conditions?
And then looke to the cause wee take in hand,2 and to our carriage in that cause, if our persons be good, be in covenant, and the cause good, and our conscience good, and our carriage sutable, then God will be with us. Let us make use of these principles, that we may bee in love with the comfortable secure condition of a Christian; there is no state so glorious, so comfortable, so secure, and free from danger. If we were in heaven and should look downe below upon all snares, and dangers, what would we care for them? Now if he be with us, and we with him, God is our habitation, we dwell in the secret of the Almighty,