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Light from heaven discovering the fountain opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich poverty. In…Light from heaven discovering the fountaine opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich povertie. In…
Light from heaven discovering the fountain opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich poverty. In four treatises. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibs, Doctor in Divinity, Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Gray's-Inn. Published according to the authors own appointment, subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect copies.Light from heaven discovering the fountaine opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich povertie. In foure treatises. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibs, Doctor in Divinitie, Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Grayes-Inne. Published according to the authors owne appointment, subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect copies.
London: printed by E. Purslow and Richard Badger for N. Bourne, 1638
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2Hence comes again the ennobling of our nature; in that God appeared in our nature, it is much ennobled: when our nature is engrafted into a higher Stock, a mean Graft or Scions, into so glorious a Stock as Christ, it is a high dignity; that now our flesh is married to the second Person, it is a wondrous advancement of our nature, even above the Angelical: He took not the nature of Angels. It was a great exaltation to our nature, that God should take it into the unity of his Person; for the humane nature of Christ had no subsistence, but in the second Person: And this doth not any way debase the humane nature of Christ, that it had no subsistence, but in the God-head. Peter, and James, and John, &c. had a subsistence, of their own; but Christ had no subsistence, but in the second Person: And yet I say, it ⟨p. 55⟩did no way demean the humane nature of Christ, because it was advanced to a higher Stock, where it hath a glorious subsistence, and being.
2Hence comes againe the ennobling of our nature; in that God appeared in our nature, it is much ennobled: when our nature is eng•affed into a higher Stock, a meane Graff or Syens, into so glorious a Stock as Christ, it is a high dignitie; that now our flesh is marryed to the second Person, it is a wondrous advancement of our nature, even above the Angelicall: Hee tooke not the nature of Angels. It was a great exaltation to our nature, that God should take it into the unitie of his Person; for the humane nature of Christ had no subsistence, but in the second Person: And this doth not any way debase the humane nature of Christ, that it had no subsistence, but in the God-head. Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, &c. had a subsistence, of their owne; but Christ had no subsistence, but in the second Person: And yet I say, it ⟨p. 55⟩did no way demeane the humane nature of Christ, because it was advanced to a higher Stock, where it hath a glorious subsistence, and being.
- 2The ennobling of it.