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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.
to cast himself being a sinful creature into the arms of Gods mercy, he cannot do it without a further light of the Spirit discovering the hidden love of GOD to him in particular; and so for other graces. Therefore they do but speak of these things, (men that are unsanctified) as a blind man doth of colours, they inwardly scorn the truth they speak of: and those to whom they speak, if by the power of Gods Spirit they come to profit by the things they teach, if themselves be carnal,1 they hate them. A carnal man believes not a ⟨p. 64⟩whit of what he saith: he hath only a common light for the good of others: a common illumination to understand and discover things, and a doctrinal gift to unfold things for other, and not for themselves: for themselves they scorn them in their hearts, and in their lives & conversations; and they will speak as much, when it comes to self-denial in preferment, in pleasures, in anything that is gainful: tush tell him what he hath taught, or what he knows out of the book of God, he cares not, he knows them only by a common light:2 but for a particular heavenly light with application, and taste to himself, ⟨p. 65⟩springing from an alteration by the Spirit, he never knows them so. Therefore content not thy self with a common light: for together with our understanding, God alters the taste of the whole soul: he gives a new eye, a new ear, to see and hear to purpose, and a new heart to conceive things in another manner than he did before.
to cast himselfe being a sinfull creature into the armes of Gods mercy, hee cannot doe it without a further light of the Spirit discovering the hidden love of GOD to him in particular; and so for other graces. Therefore they do but speake of these things, (men that are unsanctified) as a blind man doth of colours, they inwardly scorne the truth they speake of: and those to whom they speake, if by the power of Gods Spirit they come to profit by the things they teach, if themselves be carnall,1 they hate them. A carnall man believes not a