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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
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.
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.
And shall we think so great a Mystery as this was for small purpose?1 2That the great God should take upon him a Piece of Earth? That he should become a poor and weak man? The immortal God to take upon him our flesh, and to dye? That he whom Heaven and Earth cannot comprehend, should be enclosed in the Womb of a Virgin? For him to be so abased, as there was never any abasement like unto Christs,3 because of the greatness of his Person? If Angels had done so, alas, they were inferior creatures, they were servants to God: but for the Son of God to take our nature, when it was so low! for so excellent a Person, to be abased so low! There was none ever suffered that, that God in our flesh suffered: For, as communion with his Father, was sweeter to him, then to all men besides; so, for him to want communion with his ⟨p. 58⟩