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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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3The Spirit is taken likewise for the third Person in the Trinity, the Holy-Ghost, the holy Spirit: And indeed, whatsoever God the Father, or God ⟨p. 73⟩the Son doth graciously to man, it is done by the Spirit: For, as the holy Spirit is in the order of the Persons, so he is in the order of working: the Father works from himself, the Son works from the Father, the holy Spirit from them both; the holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, and the Son, as a common Principle: Therefore, sometimes the Father is said to raise Christs Body, by his Spirit; Christ is said to do things by the Spirit. Here in this place, it is especially to be understood of Christs Divine Nature, not excluding the Holy-Ghost: For, as the Holy-Ghost, in the Incarnation, sanctified his flesh, the second Person took flesh, but the third Person sanctified it; so in the Resurrection of Christ, the second Person that raised it self up, but yet it was by the Holy-Ghost too. So, when there is mention here of Christ justified by the Spirit, that is, by his God-head, and by the Holy-Ghost, which he alway used, not as an instrument, for the Holy-Ghost is a common Principle with himself, one with himself, of equal dignity, only differing in the order of Persons: Whatsoever Christ did, he did with the Spirit; that must not be excluded. Christ was as well justified in the Spirit, as God, as manifest in our nature to be man.
3The Spirit is taken likewise for the third Person in the Trinitie, the Holy-Ghost, the holy Spirit: And indeed, whatsoever God the Father, or God ⟨p. 73⟩the Sonne doth graciously to man, it is done by the Spirit: For, as the holy Spirit is in the order of the Persons, so he is in the order of working: the Father workes from himselfe, the Sonne workes from the Father, the holy Spirit from them both; the holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, and the Sonne, as a common Principle: Therefore, sometimes the Father is sayd to rayse Christs Body, by his Spirit; Christ is sayd to do things by the Spirit. Here in this place, it is especially to be understood of Christs Divine Nature, not excluding the Holy-Ghost: For, as the Holy-Ghost, in the Incarnation, sanctified his flesh, the second Person tooke flesh, but the third Person sanctified it; so in the Resurrection of Christ, the second Person that raysed it selfe up, but yet it was by the Holy-Ghost too. So, when there is mention here of Christ justified by the Spirit, that is, by his God-head, and by the Holy-Ghost, which he alway used, not as an instrument, for the Holy-Ghost is a common Principle with himselfe, one with himselfe, of equall dignitie, onely differing in the order of Persons: Whatsoever Christ did, he did with the Spirit; that must not be excluded. Christ was as well justified in the Spirit, as God, as manifest in our nature to be man.