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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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2And let us labour daily more and more, to unloose our hearts from the things below. Those that would remove a Tree, they loosen it from the root of it; so our affections are rooted to earthly things, therefore we should labour to loose them daily more and more, by the consideration of the uncertainty and vanity of all things: they are not that that will stick to us, and give us content, when we shall stand in most need of them: here we must leave the things of the world, as we find them here, we must part with them. Therefore we should labour to unloose our hearts, and to plant, and set, and pitch them where they may be safe, and swallowed up in better things.
2And let us labour daily more and more, to unloose our hearts from the things below. Those that would remoove a Tree, they loosen it from the roote of it; so our affections are rooted to earthly things, therefore wee should labour to loose them daily more and more, by the consideration of the uncertainety and vanity of all things: they are not that that will sticke to us, and give us content, when wee shall stand in most need of them: here we must leave the things of the world, as wee find them here, we must part with them. Therefore wee should labour to unloose our hearts, and to plant, and set, and pitch them where they may be safe, and swallowed up in better things.
- 2Unloose our hearts from the world.Vnloose our hearts from the world.
3And to this end, often meditate of the excellency that shall be in the second coming of Christ; oh, the glorious time then! See the means how the Church comes to be stirred up here, to say Come. Christ saith before, that he was the Root of David, the bright morning Star, he sets out himself gloriously, and the gloriousness of that time: then the Church, hearing ⟨p. 121⟩