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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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We may turn over things now (in the time of peace) with ease:1 but in the time of temptation, when the soul is touched with guilt, and Satan ⟨p. 60⟩plies us with temptations, the soul will have no rest, but in an infinite ground of comfort. The soul is prone naturally to mis-give, and to forecast the worst, and to conceive hardly of God in the time of temptation, as an enemy; and Satan is then busy about nothing so much, as that we should have hard conceits of God, and to make us forget the main end of the great work of our Redemption: which is to undermine our unbelief by all means, by setting before the soul such grounds, as the most unbelieving heart in the world, if it did consider of, would fasten, and lay it self upon. Therefore, let us labour to cherish, at such times especially, large thoughts of the infinite goodness and mercy of God, and of the love of Christ, condescending so low, as to be manifest in the flesh for our sakes.
We may turne over things now (in the time of peace) with ease:1 but in the time of temptation, when the soule is touched with guilt, and Satan ⟨p. 60⟩plyes us with temptations, the soule will have no rest, but in an infinite ground of comfort. The soule is prone naturally to mis-give, and to forecast the worst, and to conceive hardly of God in the time of temptation, as an enemie; and Satan is then busie about nothing so much, as that we should have hard conceits of God, and to make us forget the maine end of the great worke of our Redemption: which is to undermine our unbeleefe by all meanes, by setting before the soule such grounds, as the most unbeleeving heart in the world, if it did consider of, would fasten, and lay it selfe upon. Therefore, let us labour to cherish, at such times especially, large thoughts of the infinite goodnesse and mercie of God, and of the love of Christ, condescending so low, as to be manifest in the flesh for our sakes.
- 1How Satan presents God in temptation.