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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.
1And in the words, in general, observe this first of all,2 that, God by his spirit enableth his children to justify wisdom by their own experience.
1And in the words, in generall, observe this first of all,2 that, God by his spirit inableth his children to justifie wisdome by their owne experience.
- 1Doct.
- 2Wisdom justified of her children.Wisdome justified of her children.
To make it good by their own experience, It is good for me to draw near to God. And this is one reason why God suffers them to be shaken, and then in conflict to recover, that after recovery they may justify the truth nihil tam certum, &c. nothing is so certain as that that is certain after doubting, nothing is so fixed ⟨p. 141⟩as that that is fixed after it hath been shaken; as the trees have the strongest roots, because they are most shaken with winds, and tempests. Now God suffers the understanding,1 that is, the inward man, of the best men to be shaken, and after settles them; that so they may even from experience justify all truths: that they may say it is naught, it is a bitter thing to sin: Satan hath abused me, and my own lust abused me, and enticed me away from God: but I see no such good thing in sin,2