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Christs exaltation purchased by humiliation Wherein you may see mercy and misery meet together. Very useful I. For instructing the ignorant. II. For comforting the weak. III. For confirming the strong. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher of Gray's-Inn, London. Published by T.G. and P.N.Christs exaltation purchast by humiliation Wherein you may see mercy and misery meete together. Very vsefull I. For instructing the ignorant. II. For comforting the weake. III. For confirming the strong. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Published by T.G. and P.N.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes, 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.
How shall we live to Christ?
We live to Christ, (this is a ground of all other duties that follow) when we know, and acknowledge Christ hath a full interest in us, by being our head, by being our husband, by being our King, our elder brother, he hath all the sweet interest to us, that any relation can inright him to, for all other relations among men are but shadows of that grand relation, there only is the realty of things, he is a true head, a true King, a true elder brother, a true husband of his Church, all ours are but, poor representations of those glorious ⟨p. 89⟩things, then know and acknowledge so much, that is the ground of all living to him.
We live to Christ, (this is a ground of all other duties that follow) when we know, and acknowledge Christ hath a full interest in us, by being our head, by being our husband, by being our King, our elder brother, he hath all the sweete interest to us, that any relation can inright him to, for all other relations among men are but shaddowes of that grand relation, there onely is the realty of things, he is a true head, a true King, a true elder brother, a true husband of his Church, all ours are but, poore representations of those glorious ⟨p. 89⟩things, then know and acknowledge so much, that is the ground of all living to him.
Upon knowing and acknowledging, issues all other obedience in our life to Christ, those that thus acknowledge Christ, they must be directed by his will, and not their own, as a servant as far as he is a servant, and a wife so far as she is a wife, they have no will of their own; so he that lives to Christ, and acknowledgeth him to be a Lord, he must have no will of his own, but he must live according to the will of Christ, as you have it excellently set