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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
Doth God delight thus in Christ,1 in his person or considered mystically?2 I answer both, God loves and delights in Christ mysticall,3 that is, in Christ and his members, in whole Christ, This is my Beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased, not onely with whom alone by himselfe, but in whom, in him as God, in him in body and soule, 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.
- 1Quest.
- 2Answ.
- 3God loves Christ mystical.God loves Christ mysticall.
Is it possible that he should delight in the head, and refuse the members? That he should love the husband, and mislike the Spouse? O no; with the same love that God loves Christ, he loves all his, he delights in Christ and all his with the same delight, there is some difference in the degree, That Christ in all things may have the preeminence, but it is the same love; therefore our Saviour sets it down excellently in his own prayer, he desires that the same love wherewith his Father loved him may be in them that are his, that they may feel the love wherewith his Father loves him: for he loves him and his members, him and his Spouse with all one love.