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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
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Therefore the course that God takes with his children is this;1 those that he means to have; he first inspires into their hearts some desire to come to hear, and attend upon the means of salvation, to understand the Gospel, and then under the means of salvation, he shines into the understanding by a heavenly light; and inspires into the will and affections some ⟨p. 33⟩heavenly inclination to this truth of the Gospel, to justification, sanctification, self-denial, and the like: and works a new life, and new senses, and upon them wrought under the means comes the soul to relish, and to understand these mysteries, and then the ears, and the eyes are open to see these things, and never before. A holy man that hath his heart subdued by the spirit of God in the use of the means, oh, he relisheth the point of forgiveness of sins, he relisheth the point of sanctification, he studies it daily more, and more, and nearer communion with God, he relisheth peace of conscience, and joy in the holy Ghost, they are sweet ⟨p. 34⟩things, and all the duties of Christianity, because he makes it his main business to adorn his pro•ession: and to live here, so, as he may live for ever hereafter. And this must be of necessity: for mark out of the text; If the natural eye, and ear, and heart can never see nor hear, nor conceive the things of God, must there not be a supernatural ear, and eye, and heart put into the soul? must not the heart,2 and all be new moulded again? If the former frame be not sufficient for these things, of necessity it must be so.
Therefore the course that God takes with his children is this;1 those that he meanes to have; he first inspires into their hearts some desire to come to heare, and attend upon the meanes of salvation, to understand the Gospell, and then under the means of salvation, he shines into the understanding by a heavenly light; and inspires into the will and affections some ⟨p. 33⟩