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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.
1You have in Jacobs Ladder, a notable representation of this: Jacobs Ladder, it reached from Earth to Heaven; and that pointed to Christ himself, who is Emanuel, God and man, who brought God and man together: He was a Mediator between both, and a friend to both: He was that Ladder, that touched Heaven and Earth, and joined both together. Now it is said, the Angels ascended and descended upon that Ladder: so the Angels descending upon us, is, because they ascend and descend upon Jacobs Ladder first; that ⟨p. 101⟩is, upon Christ. All things are yours (saith the Apostle:) What be those? God is ours, the Spirit is ours, Heaven is ours, the Earth is ours; Afflictions, Life, Death, Paul, Apollo, the Angels themselves, all is ours: Why? Ye are Christs; that is the ground. So it is a spring of comfort to consider, that Christ was seen, and admired and attended by Angels; they are ours, because we are Christs. Let us consider, what a comfort it is, to have the attendance of these blessed Spirits for Christs sake.
1You have in Iacobs Ladder, a notable representation of this: Iacobs Ladder, it reached from Earth to Heaven; and that pointed to Christ himselfe, who is Emanuel, God and man, who brought God and man together: He was a Mediator betweene both, and a friend to both: He was that Ladder, that touched Heaven and Earth, and joyned both together. Now it is said, the Angels ascended and descended upon that Ladder: so the Angels descending upon us, is, because they ascend and descend upon Iacobs Ladder first; that ⟨p. 101⟩is, upon Christ. All things are yours (sayth the Apostle:) What be those? God is ours, the Spirit is ours, Heaven is ours, the Earth is ours; Afflictions, Life, Death, Paul, Apollo, the Angels themselves, all is ours: Why? Ye are Christs; that is the ground. So it is a spring of comfort to consider, that Christ was seene, and admired and attended by Angels; they are ours, because we are Christs. Let us consider, what a comfort it is, to have the attendance of these blessed Spirits for Christs sake.
- 1Jacobs Ladder, what it figured.