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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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Now,1 the care of Angels concerning Christ and his Church, it was shadowed out in Exod. 25. and 26.2 There, the Mercy-Seat, which covered the Ark, wherein the Law was; upon the Mercy-Seat there were two Cherubins counter viewing one another, and both pried to the Mercy-Seat; they shadowed out the Angels, that look on the Mercy-Seat, 3Christ: for, he is the Mercy-Seat, that covers the Law; and the Curse, in whom God was merciful to us. There they look upon that with a kind of wonderment, and attendance, which S. Peter alludes unto,4 in that place, ⟨p. 100⟩Into which Mysteries the very Angels pry. And so in the Veil of the Tabernacle,5 the Veil had round about it Pictures of Cherubins: What did that shadow out unto us? The multitude of Cherubins, and Seraphims, and Angels that attend upon Christ, and his Church. So he was seen, and attended on by Angels; and it belongs to all that are his:6 as you have it, Heb. 1. They are ministering spirits, for the good of the heirs of salvation. They that serve the King, serve the Queen too: Christ is the King of his Church, and the Church is the greatest Queen in the World; they attend upon her: nay, Christ hath made us with himself Kings. Now, what a King is that, that hath a Guard of Angels? As they guarded and attended upon Christ, so they guard and attend all that are his: as you have it excellently in Dan. 7.10. There are thousand thousands of Angels about the Throne continually. All this is for our comfort, because we are one Mystical body with him.