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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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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⟩what the excellency of that state will •e then, and the excellency of Christ, the Church hath desires suitable to those manifestations. Therefore let us meditate of the state of the Church, what it will be, and of the excell•• cy, and glory of Christ, when he• shall com• to be glorious in his Saints, what a happy condition it will be; and to feed our meditations; let us be oft in hearing, and reading, of these things. If we hope for any thing to come in this world: as if a young heir• that shall have great possessions, the more he grows towards years, the more he thinks, I shall have this manor, and that, he thinks of the possessions he hath▪ so a Christian, the nearer he grows to heaven, the more he thinks upon, and talks, and is willing to hear of that condition that he shall have. The more we are in meditation, and to help meditation▪ the more we are in thinking, and speaking, and conferring of these things, what will befall us ere long (if we be Gods,) the more our affections will be raised up, as we see in the Spouse here, upon the manifestation of th• excellency of Christ, comes this desire after the coming of Christ. This is one reason of the deadness of our hearts; we do not awaken them with such holy thoughts as we should, and we are not under those means as we might oft times. There cannot be any thing more •weet, and powerful to draw up our souls, then meditation in this kind.
3And to this end, often meditate of the excellency that shall be in the second comming of Christ; oh, the glorious time then! See the meanes how the Church comes to be stirred up here, to say Come. Christ saith before, that he was the Roote of David, the bright morning Starre, he sets out himselfe gloriously, and the gloriousnesse of that time: then the Church, hearing