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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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Hence likewise comes the efficacy of what Christ did;7 that the dying of one man should be sufficient for the whole World: it was, that God was in the flesh.
Hence likewise comes the efficacie of what Christ did;7 that the dying of one man should be sufficient for the whole World: it was, that God was in the flesh.
- 7The efficacy of what Christ did.The efficacie of what Christ did.
The Apostle may well call this, God manifest in the flesh, a Mystery, and place it in the first rank: for God to be included in the Womb of a Virgin, for happiness it self to become a Curse, for him that hath the Riches of all in him, to become poor for our sakes; for him that ever enjoyed his Fathers presence, to want the beams of it for a time, that he might satisfy his Fathers justice, and undergo his wrath for our sins; here is a matter of wonderment indeed.
The Apostle may well call this, God manifest in the flesh, a Mysterie, and place it in the first ranke: for God to be included in the Wombe of a Virgin, for happinesse it selfe to become a Curse, for him that hath the Riches of all in him, to become poore for our sakes; for him that ever enjoyed his Fathers presence, to want the beames of it for a time, that he might satisfie his Fathers justice, and undergoe his wrath for our sinnes; here is a matter of wonderment indeed.