Divine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverend divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of…Divine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverende divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of…

It is the nature of the soul, that when it sees a §47succession of better things, it makes the world seem cheap, when it sees another condition, not liable to change, then it hath a sanctified judgement to esteem of things as they are, and so it overcomes the world.

It is the nature of the soule, that when it sees a §47succession of better things, it makes the world seeme cheape, when it sees another condition, not liable to change, then it hath a sanctified judgement to esteeme of things as they are, and so it overcomes the world.

In the Covenant of Grace, God intends the §48glory of his Grace above all. Now faith is fit for it, because it hath an uniting Virtue to knit us to the Mediator, and to lay hold of a thing out of it self; it empties the soul of all conceit of worth or ⟨p. 27⟩strength, or excellency in the creature, and so it gives all the glory to God and Christ.

In the Covenant of Grace, God intends the §48glory of his Grace above all. Now faith is fit for it, because it hath an uniting Vertue to knit us to the Mediator, and to lay hold of a thing out of it selfe; it empties the soule of all conceit of worth or ⟨p. 27⟩strength, or excellencie in the creature, and so it gives all the glory to God and Christ.