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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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Now that Christs sacrifice was so acceptable to God, there is a direct place for it in Ephes. 5. Walk in love as Christ hath loved us and hath given himself an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet smell. And indeed how many sweet savours were there in the sacrifice of Christ offered on the Cross? was there not the sweet savour of obedience? he was obedient to the death of the Cross, there was the sweet savour of patience, and of love to mankind, therefore God delighted in him, as God, as Man, as Mediator ⟨p. 25⟩God-Man, in his doings, in his sufferings, every way.
Now that Christs sacrifice was so acceptable to God, there is a direct place for it in Ephes. 5. Walke in love as Christ hath loved us and hath given himselfe an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet smell. And indeed how many sweet savours were there in the sacrifice of Christ offered on the Crosse? was there not the sweet savour of obedience? he was obedient to the death of the Crosse, there was the sweet savour of patience, and of love to mankind, therefore God delighted in him, as God, as Man, as Mediator ⟨p. 25⟩God-Man, in his doings, in his sufferings, every way.
Doth God delight thus in Christ,1 in his person or considered mystically?2 I answer both, God loves and delights in Christ mystical,3 that is, in Christ and his members, in whole Christ, This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, not only with whom alone by himself, but in whom, in him as God, in him in body and soul, in him as head of the Church, in him mystically, in all that are under him any kind of way, God delights in him and all his.