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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.
Let wicked men cast what aspersions they will upon the names of Gods people: let them eclipse them, and cloud them as they please, as their malice instigates them therein; the names and reputations of Gods people are not in their keeping, and power: For David shall have a good name (in spite of all the ••oeg's and Shimei, when they are rotten body and name together) we see here many hundred years after he is mentioned with titles of honour. It should encourage us therefore to serve God as we regard a good name.
Let wicked men cast what aspertions they will upon the names of Gods people: let them eclipse them, and cloud them as they please, as their malice instigates them therein; the names and reputations of Gods people are not in their keeping, and power: For David shall have a good name (in spight of all the ••oeg's and Shemeies, when they are rotten bodie and name together) wee see here many hundred yeares after he is mentioned with titles of honour. It should incourage us therfore to serve God as wee regard a good name.
Mark here the language of the holy Ghost,1 the language of Canaan. When he speaks of a good man, he speaks of him in savoury terms: he doth not say that David after he had been so long, or lived so long, or reigned, and flourished so long: (as we see in stories such a man lived, or reigned, &c. so long and then died:) yet this had been true, after he had lived, and reigned so long he died. But that is not the language of the holy Ghost; but after he had served God so long. The Scripture values men by that that God values ⟨p. 166⟩them, and not as men do, by their life, and reign, and flourishing in the world, and their esteem with men, but as his carriage hath been to God. David served the will of God in his generation.
Mark here the language of the holy Ghost,