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Christs exaltation purchasedChrists exaltation purchast
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
CHRISTS EXALTATION PURCHASED BY HV MILIATION.CHRISTS EXALTATION PVRCHAST BY HV MILIATION.
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.
Again, this (revived) is added, to show the kind of his life, differing from that life he lived before, that life he lived, before he dyed, was supported with meat, and drink, and refreshings: even as ⟨p. 22⟩our poor lives are. It was a life subject to death, that he dyed in, but after his Resurrection, except it were for a particular dispensation to confirm the faith of his Disciples, he needed no more to eat, or drink, or sleep, or any natural supports, and helps, for he was enlivened immediately by the Spirit of God which flowed into him, he was full of the Spirit, and that did supply all other things whatsoever. Even as in heaven, God shall be all in all, that is, he shall be so immediately to us, to supply all, as we shall neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor have magistrates, ⟨p. 23⟩nor ministers, but the Spirit of God will be all in all, so it was with this life of our blessed Saviour, when he revived, the Spirit supplied the absence of all other supports whatsoever, that he used before he dyed. And indeed our Saviour Christ came to bestow that life upon us, that he lived after his Resurrection, not this natural life of ours, that needs meat, and drink, and refreshing, this is not that life, that Christ specially aimed at, when he came to dye, but that spiritual and eternal life, that he lived after the Resurrection, a life not subject to death, a spiritual ⟨p. 24⟩life, not needing any created support whatsoever.
Againe, this (revived) is added, to shew the kind of his life, differing from that life hee lived before, that life he lived, before he dyed, was supported with meate, and drinke, and refreshings: even as ⟨p. 22⟩our poore lives are. It was a life subject to death, that he dyed in, but after his Resurrection, except it were for a particular dispensation to confirme the faith of his Disciples, he needed no more to eate, or drinke, or sleepe, or any naturall supports, and helpes, for he was enlivened immediately by the Spirit of God which flowed into him, he was full of the Spirit, and that did supply all other things whatsoever. Even as in heaven, God shall be all in all, that is, hee shall be so immediately to us, to supply all, as we shall neither eate, nor drinke, nor sleepe, nor have magistrates,