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A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feastA glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast
A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feast wherein thou mayst taste and see those things which God hath prepared for them that love him / By R. Sibs ...A glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast wherein thou mayst taste and see those things which God hath prepared for them that love him / By R. Sibs ...
London: printed by E. G. for John Rothwell, 1638London: printed by E. G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1638
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.
First, the doctrine of the Gospel, the publishing of it.
First, the doctrine of the Gospell, the publishing of it.
And then secondly, grace by that doctrine.
And thirdly, glory upon grace, the consummation of all.
So the mysteries of salvation, is first the doctrine it self, that is the first degree of the kingdom. The doctrine it self is a mystery to all those that never heard of it: for what creature could ever conceive how to reconcile Justice and Mercy, by devising such a ⟨p. 139⟩way, as for God to become Man, to reconcile God and man together? that Emmanuel, he that is God with us, should make God and us one in love: this could be no more thought of, than Adam could think of himself to be made a man▪ when he was dust of the earth. Could man when he was worse then dust, in a lost damned estate, think of redemption? It is impossible for a man that cannot tell the form, and the quintessence, that cannot enter into the depth of the flowers, or the grass that he tramples on with his feet, that he should have the wit to enter into the deep things of God, that have been concealed even