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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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1And shall God love him, and delight in him, and shall not our soul delight in Christ? This therefore should stir up our affections to Christ, to be faithful in our conjugal affection as the Spouse of Christ, to say, My Beloved is mine and I am my Beloveds, Christ calls his Church, My Love and my Dove. Doth Christ delight in us, and God delight in Christ, and ⟨p. 29⟩shall not we delight in Christ, that delights in us, and in whom God delights? In the 1. Cor. 16. ult. the Apostle is bold to pronounce a bitter curse, Anathema Maranatha upon him that loves not the Lord Christ Jesus, a most bitter curse, when Christ shall become a servant to do our work for us, to suffer for us, to bear the burden of our sins upon the tree, to become our husband, to bestow his riches upon us, to raise us to the same condition with himself, and withal to be such a one as God hath chosen out to love, and delight in as the best object of his love, and most capable of it, and for us not to solace and delight our selves in him that God delights in, when God delights in him for our sake, God loves and delights in him for the work of salvation and redemption by his blood, and shall not we love and embrace him for his love which is for our good? What good hath God by it but only the glory of his mercy, in saving our souls through Christ? Therefore if God love him for the good he doth to us, much more should we love him for the fruit of it that we receive our selves.
1And shall God love him, and delight in him, and shall not our soule delight in Christ? This therefore should stirre up our affections to Christ, to be faithfull in our conjugall affection as the Spouse of Christ, to say, My Beloved is mine and I am my Beloveds, Christ calls his Church, My Love and my Dove. Doth Christ delight in us, and God delight in Christ, and ⟨p. 29⟩shall not we delight in Christ, that delights in us, and in whom God delights? In the 1. Cor. 16. ult. the Apostle is bold to pronounce a bitter curse, Anathema Maranatha upon him that loves not the Lord Christ Jesus, a most bitter curse, when Christ shall become a servant to do our worke for us, to suffer for us, to beare the burthen of our sinnes upon the tree, to become our husband, to bestow his riches upon us, to raise us to the same condition with himselfe, and withall to be such a one as God hath chosen out to love, and delight in as the best object of his love, and most capable of it, and for us not to solace and delight our selves in him that God delights in, when God delights in him for our sake, God loves and delights in him for the worke of salvation and redemption by his blood, and shall not wee love and imbrace him for his love which is for our good? What good hath God by it but onely the glory of his mercy, in saving our soules through Christ? Therefore if God love him for the good he doth to us, much more should we love him for the fruit of it that wee receive our selves.