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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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1Oh, what boldness have we now to go to God in our flesh. To think of God absolutely, without God in the flesh, he is a consuming fire, every way terrible: but to think of God in our nature▪ we may securely go to him; he is bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh: we may securely go to God our Brother, to him that is of one nature with us, and now having our nature in Heaven. Think of God borne of a Virgin, of God lying in the Cradle, sucking the Brest, think of God going up and down teaching, and doing all good; think of God sweating for thee, hanging on the Cross, shedding his Blood, lying in the Grave, raising himself again, and now in Heaven, sitting at the right hand of God, our Intercessor; conceive of God in this flesh of ours lovely to us, and now our nature must needs be lovely to him. The nature of God must needs be lovely to us, since he hath joined our poor beggarly flesh to the unity of the ⟨p. 65⟩second Person. Let us thus think of God manifest in the flesh. To think of God alone, it swallows up our thoughts; but to think of God in Christ, of God manifest in the flesh, it is a comfortable consideration. To see the Sun alone in it self,2 in the glory and lustre of it, it is impossible, without hurting of the eye; but to see the Sun in water, as we do in an Eclipse, &c. we may do it. So we cannot conceive of God alone absolutely; but to conceive of God in our flesh, is to look upon the Sun (as it were) in the water, or upon the ground. God in himself is so glorious, that we could never see him, as he tells Moses, Exod. 33.3 None can ever see God, and live; that is, God nakedly, or absolutely. Oh, but God manifest in our flesh, we may see; and it shall be our happiness in Heaven, to see him there, to see God in our flesh face to face.
1Oh, what boldnesse have we now to goe to God in our flesh. To thinke of God absolutely, without God in the flesh, he is a consuming fire, every way terrible: but to thinke of God in our nature we may securely goe to him; he is bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh: we may scurely goe to God our Brother, to him that is of one nature with us, and now having our nature in Heaven. Think of God borne of a Virgin, of God lying in the Cradle, sucking the Brest, thinke of God going up and downe teaching, and doing all good; thinke of God sweating for thee, hanging on the Crosse, shedding his Bloud, lying in the Grave, raysing himselfe againe, and now in Heaven, sitting at the right hand of God, our Intercessor; conceive of God in this flesh of ours lovely to us, and now our nature must needs be lovely to him. The nature of God must needs be lovely to us, since he hath joyned our poore beggerly flesh to the unitie of the