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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
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And then of the moving cause that stirs up the Bride to desire the coming of Christ,
And then of the mooving cause that stirres up the Bride to desire the comming of Christ,
First,1 for the person, the Bride.
- 1The Church • Bride.
The Church is sometime compared to a woman for weakness; sometimes to a wife, for faithfulness to her Husband and Christ; sometimes to a Bride; because she is contracted to Christ in this world; sometimes to a mother for her fruitfulness; sometimes to a Virgin, for her chastity: here to a Bride, because this life is but the time of Contract; but the consummation of the marriage shall be in heaven. Now this contract between the Church and Christ, and between every particular soul and Christ: for both are the bride of Christ. Even as it is the same soul that is in the little finger, and in all the whole ⟨p. 102⟩body, the same soul enlivens both: so it is the same Spirit in the Bride in general, and in every particular Christian, therefore the Bride is both every particular Christian, & the whole Church. Now the contract that is made between the soul, and between the Church & Christ, it is by the Spirit of God which knits the soul to Christ, and Christ to the soul. And for this end that Christ might be a Husband, and contract this Bride to himself in our nature, he married our nature, that he might marry our persons.