A12166:95
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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1And here is a wondrous comfort that God must needs love our salvation and redemption, when he loves Christ, because he poured out his soul to death to save us, doth not God delight that we should be saved, and our sins should be forgiven, when he loves Christ because he abased himself for that purpose? What a prop and foundation of comfort is this, when the Devil shall present God to us in a terrible hideous manner, as an avenging God, and consuming fire, &c. (indeed out of Christ he is so) let us present to our selves thoughts of God, as the Scripture sets forth God to us, and as God ⟨p. 27⟩set• forth himself not only in that sweet relation as a Father to Christ, bu• our father, I go to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God, having both one God, and love and care. There is none of us all but the Devil will have a saying to us, either in the time of our life, in some terrible temptation, especially when any outward abasement comes, or at the hour of death, and all the cordials we have gathered out of the Word will then be little enough to support the drooping soul, especially in the hour of temptation. Oh Beloved what a wondrous stay, and satisfaction to a distressed conscience doth this yield, that Christ in all that he hath wrought for us, is Gods chosen servant, whom he loves and delights in, and delights in him for this very work that he abased himself and gave himself for us, that he wrought Gods work, because he wrought reconciliation for us? If we can believe in Christ, we see here what ground of comfort we have, that God loves and delights in us, as he doth in his own Son.
1And here is a wondrous comfort that God must needs love our salvation and redemption, when he loves Christ, because hee powred out his soule to death to save us, doth not God delight that wee should bee saved, and our sinnes should bee forgiven, when hee loves Christ because hee abased himselfe for that purpose? What a prop and foundation of comfort is this, when the Divell shall present God to us in a terrible hideous manner, as an avenging God, and consuming fire, &c. (indeed out of Christ he is so) let us present to our selves thoughts of God, as the Scripture sets foorth God to us, and as God ⟨p. 27⟩