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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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God was at home in 88. he was with us in the Powder-Treason: He was with us in the great sickness to preserve us, and to give us our lives for a prey, he hath been with us. And we ought not to forget this, but upon occasion of this great deliverance, to call all former deliverances to mind, national, and personal, to consider how often God hath given us our lives, and how oft he hath preserved us from death, and to take occasion to bless God for all at once, and so to make some special use of these meetings.
God was at home in 88. hee was with us in the Powder-Treason: Hee was with us in the great sicknesse to preserve us, and to give us our lives for a prey, hee hath beene with us. And wee ought not to forget this, but upon occasion of this great deliverance, to call all former deliverances to minde, nationall, and personall, to consider how often God hath given us our lives, and how oft he hath pre•erved us from death, and to take occasion to blesse God for all at once, and so to make some speciall use of these meetings.
Then if we look abroad, God hath been with us in that he hath been with his Church; for they, and we, make but one body, that member that hath not a sympathy with the body, it is but a dead member: therefore if we be not affected with the presence of God, with the Armies abroad, we are dead members. We may say, in regard of these outward deliverances, God hath been with us, and ⟨p. 93⟩none hath been against us. If God had not been with us in the Powder-plot, where had we been? Our lives would have been made a prey, that that would have been done, would have been more then the blowing up of the Parliament; they would have blown up the Kingdom with the King, and Religion with religious persons, and the State with Statesmen: It would have brought a confusion of all, and have moulded all after an Idolatrous Antichristian fashion, it would have overthrown the State, and persons and all; the issues would have been worse than the present thing: And therefore if God had not been with us, as he was graciously with us, what would have become of us?