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A breathing after God. Or a Christians desire of Gods presence. By the late…
A breathing after God. Or a Christians desire of Gods presence. By the late reverent and worthy divine Richard Sibs, Doctor in Divinity, master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometime preacher of Greys-InnA breathing after God. Or a Christians desire of Gods presence. By the late reverent and worthy divine Richard Sibs, Doctor in Divinity, master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometime preacher of Graies-Inne
London: printed by John Dawson for R. Mabb, 1639London: printed by Iohn Dawson for R. Mabb, 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.
There is nothing that characterizeth, and sets a stamp upon a Christian so much as desires, All other things may be counterfeit, words and actions may be counterfeit, but the desires and affections cannot, because they are the immediate issues and productions of the soul, they ate that that comes ⟨p. 43⟩immediately from the Soul, as fire cannot be counterfeit. A man may ask his desires what he is, according to the pulse of the desires, so is the temper of the man: desires are better then actions a great deal: for a man may do a good action, that he doth not love, and he may abstain from an ill action that he hates not: but God is a Spirit, and looks to the Spirit especially. It is a good Character of a Christian, that his desire for the most part is to good; the tenor and sway, and bent of his desire is to good. One things have I desired: the spirit of God is ⟨p. 44⟩effectual in stirring up these desires.
There is nothing tha charactizeth, and sets a stampe upon a Christian so much as desires, All other things may bee counterfeit, words and actions may bee counterfeit, but the desires and affections cannot, because they are the immediate issues and productions of the soule, they ate that that comes ⟨p. 43⟩immediately from the Soule, as fire cannot bee counterfeit. A man may aske his desires what he is, according to the pulse of the desires, so is the temper of the man: desires are better then actions a great deale: for a man may doe a good action, that hee doth not love, and he may abstaine from an ill action that he hates not: but God is a Spirit, and lookes to the Spirit especially. It is a good Character of a Christian, that his desire for the most part is to good; the tenour and sway, and bent of his desire is to good. One things have I desired: the spirit of God is ⟨p. 44⟩effectuall in stirring up these desires.