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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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God values them by their better part, by that that is his in them, by that that is spiritual in them. He judgeth them by the tenor of their lives, and not by a particular flaw in their lives. This is Gods infinite mercy, when he pardons, he pardons absolutely, he forgets as well as forgives: therefore the phrase of Scripture runs, He will cast our sins behind his back, & cast them into the bottom of the sea, that they shall never rise up in remembrance. When we have once repented of our sins, they are to him as if they had never been done; they are as things forgotten. Peter, after his foul fall, he was not so much as upbraided by Christ in particular, Thou hast denied me, &c. ⟨p. 168⟩only Christ comes sweetly over him with a question, Lovest thou •e▪ he tells him not, thou hast betrayed me thus and thus: no, he doth not so much as upbraid him with the mention of it. So curious is God for troubling the peace of his people, that when they have soundly repented of their sins, they shall never hear of it to their confusion, nor at all, except it be to better them, and to perfect the work of humiliation.
God values them by their better part, by that that is his in them, by that that is spirituall in them. He iudgeth them by the tenour of their lives, and not by a particular flaw in their lives. This is Gods infinite mercy, when he pardons, he pardons absolutely, he forgets as well as forgives: therefore the phrase of Scripture runs, He will cast our sins behinde his back, & cast them into the bottome of the sea, that they shall never rise up in remembrance. When we have once repented of our sinnes, they are to him as if they had never been done; they are as things forgotten. Peter, after his foul fall, he was not so much as upbraided by Christ in particular, Thou hast denied me, &c. ⟨p. 168⟩onely Christ comes sweetly over him with a question, Lovest thou •e▪ he tels him not, thou hast betrayed me thus and thus: no, he doth not so much as upbraid him with the mention of it. So curious is God for troubling the peace of his people, that when they have soundly repented of their sins, they shall never hear of it to their confusion, nor at all, except it be to better them, and to perfect the work of humiliation.