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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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And you see in the Genealogy of Christ,1 he came both of Jews and Gentiles, as we see in Ruth: Divers of our Saviours Ancestors, they were Gentiles as well as Jews; to show, that he that came of both, he came to be the Saviour of both. But it is the safest (as I said before) in these Quaere's, to rest in the wise unsearchable dispensation of God; and rather be thankful, that God hath reserved us to these times, and places of knowledge, then to ask why our fore-fathers did not know Christ.2 We enjoy a double Spring of the Gospel, and the benefits of it. First, we were delivered from Heathenism: what kind of people ⟨p. 132⟩were we in Julius Caesars time? barbarous people. And after when Popery came in, God delivered us from that; there was a second Spring. Yet how few give God praise, that hath had mercy on us Gentiles, that hath delivered us from Gentilism and from the darkness of Popery? but we grow weary of Religion, as they did of Manna.
And you see in the Genealogie of Christ,1 he came both of Iewes and Gentiles, as we see in Ruth: Divers of our Saviours Ancestors, they were Gentiles as well as Iewes; to shew, that he that came of both, he came to be the Saviour of both. But it is the safest (as I said before) in these Quaere's, to rest in the wise unsearchable dispensation of God; and rather be thankfull, that God hath reserved us to these times, and places of knowledge, then to aske why our fore-fathers did not know Christ.2 We enjoy a double Spring of the Gospel, and the benefits of it. First, we were delivered from Heathenisme: what kind of people ⟨p. 132⟩were we in Iulius Caesars time? barbarous people. And after when Poperie came in, God delivered us from that; there was a second Spring. Yet how few give God praise, that hath had mercie on us Gentiles, that hath delivered us from Gentilisme and from the darkenesse of Poperie? but we grow wearie of Religion, as they did of Manna.