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The excellency of the Gospel above the law Wherein the liberty of the sons…The excellencie of the Gospell above the law Wherein the liberty of the sonnes…
The excellency of the Gospel above the law Wherein the liberty of the sons of God is showed. With the image of their graces here, and glory hereafter. Which affords much comfort and great encouragement, to all such as begin timely, and continue constantly in the ways of God. By R. Sibbs, D.D. Mr. of Katherin Hall Cambridge, and preacher of Gray's-Inn, London. Begun in his life time, and published by T.G. and P.N.The excellencie of the Gospell above the law Wherein the liberty of the sonnes of God is shewed. With the image of their graces here, and glory hereafter. Which affords much comfort and great incouragement, to all such as begin timely, and continue constantly in the wayes of God. By R. Sibbs, D.D. Mr. of Katherin Hall Cambridge, and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Begun in his life time, and published by T.G. and P.N.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes and John Dawson, 1639
Excellency of the GOSPEL above the LAW. › PartExcellency of the GOSPEL above the LAVV. › Part
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Lord without thy Spirit my body is as a thing without a soul, a dead, loathsome, stiff, unapt, carcass, that cannot stir a whit; and so my soul without the operation ⟨p. 638⟩of thy holy Spirit, it is a stiff, dead, unmoveable thing, and therefore by thy Spirit breath upon me, as thy holy Spirit in the creation did lye upon the waters, and brood as it were all things there, lying upon the waters it fashioned this goodly creature, heaven, and earth, this Mundus, so the Spirit of God lying upon the waters of the soul, it fashions all graces, and comforts whatsoever they are, all is wrought by the Spirit in the new creature, as all in this glorious fabric of the world was by the Spirit of God. Let the Spirit of God therefore have due acknowledgement, ⟨p. 639⟩in all things whatsoever.
Lord without thy Spirit my body is as a thing without a soule, a dead, loathsome, stiffe, unapt, carkasse, that cannot stirre a whit; and so my soule without the operation ⟨p. 638⟩of thy holy Spirit, it is a stiffe, dead, unmoveable thing, and therefore by thy Spirit breath upon me, as thy holy Spirit in the creation did lye upon the waters, and brood as it were all things there, lying upon the waters it fashioned this goodly creature, heaven, and earth, this Mundus, so the Spirit of God lying upon the waters of the soule, it fashions all graces, and comforts whatsoever they are, all is wrought by the Spirit in the new creature, as all in this glorious fabricke of the world was by the Spirit of God. Let the Spirit of God therefore have due acknowledgement, ⟨p. 639⟩in all things whatsoever.
And what are we to look to mainly now? the knowledge of God the Father, and his love to us shining in Christ, all is in Christ, and if we would have any thing wrought in us, any alteration of our natures, let us beg the Spirit that we may have the discovery of the love of God in Christ, & the Spirit attending upon the Gospel.