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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…
Divine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverend divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Gray's Inn in LondonDivine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverende divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Grayes Inne in London
London: printed by Tho. Cotes for John Crooke and Richard Sergier, 1638London: printed by Tho. Cotes for Iohn Crooke and Richard Sergier, 1638
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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.
What we are afraid to §49speak before men, and to do for fear of danger, let us be afraid to think before God, therefore we should stifle all ill conceits in the very conception, in their very rising; let them be used as Rebels and Traitors, smothered at the first.
What wee are afraid to §49speake before men, and to doe for feare of danger, let us be afraid to thinke before God, therefore wee should stifle all ill conceits in the very conception, in their very rising; let them be used as Rebells and Traytors, smoothered at the first.