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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
DAVIDS CONCLUSION: OR, The Saints Resolution.DAVIDS CONCLVSION: OR, The Saints Resolution.
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.
1So the sanctified spirit of a holy man; he looks not to the stream of the times, what be the currents, and opinions, and courses of rising to preferment, of getting riches, or attaining to an imaginary present happiness here: but he hath other thoughts, he hath another judgement of things, and therefore goes contrary to the worlds course. Hear Saint Paul, Phillip 3. saith he there,2 All men seek their own, I cannot speak of it without weeping: whose end is damnation, whose belly is their God, who mind earthly things. But what doth Saint Paul, when other men seek their own, and are carried after private ends? oh saith ⟨p. 139⟩he, our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for the Saviour; who shall change our vile bodies, and make them like his glorious body; according to his mighty power, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. So you see the blessed Apostle, (led with the same spirit as the man of God here) he considers not what men do, he fetcheth not the rules of his life from the example of the great ones of the world, or from multitude: these are false, deceiving rules: but he fetcheth the rule of his life from the experimental goodness he had found by a contrary course to the world. Let the world take what course they will, it is good for me to draw near to God.
1So the sanctified spirit of a holy man; hee looks not to the stream of the times, what be the currents, and opinions, and courses of rising to preferment, of getting riches, or attaining to an imaginary present happinesse here: but hee hath other thoughts, hee hath another judgement of things, and therefore goes contrary to the worlds course. Heare Saint Paul, Phillip 3. saith he there,2 All men seek their owne, I cannot speak of it without weeping: whose end is damnation, whose belly is their God, who mind earthly things. But what doth Saint Paul, when other men seek their owne, and are carried after private ends? oh saith ⟨p. 139⟩he, our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for the Saviour; who shall change our vile bodies, and make them like his glorious body; according to his mighty power, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himselfe. So you see the blessed Apostle, (led with the same spirit as the man of God here) he considers not what men do, he fetcheth not the rules of his life from the example of the great ones of the world, or from multitude: these are false, deceiving rules: but he fetcheth the rule of his life from the experimentall goodnesse he had found by a contrary course to the world. Let the world take what course they will, it is good for me to draw neare to God.