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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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1Let us therefore make good use of it, that God hath been merciful to us Gentiles, in these later times. And let us that are borne in the precincts of the Church, help our faith in the time of temptation this way: Certainly, God means well to my soul; I might have been borne before, in times of ignorance, and places of ignorance, and never have heard of Christ: but I have been baptized, and admitted into the Church; and by that, there is an Obligation; before I understood my self, I was bound to believe in Christ; God was so careful of my soul, when I understood nothing, that there should be a Bond for me, to believe in Christ: if God had not meant well to my soul, I should not have lived so much as to hear of the Gospel. Thus we should gather upon God, as the woman of Canaan did upon our Saviour Christ, and fight against all distrust, and unbelief, and all temptations of Satan, that present God as though he cared not for us: there cannot be too much art, and skill, to help our Faith this way.
1Let us therefore make good use of it, that God hath beene mercifull to us Gentiles, in these later times. And let us that are borne in the precincts of the Church, helpe our faith in the time of temptation this way: Certainely, God meanes well to my soule; I might have beene borne before, in times of ignorance, and places of ignorance, and never have heard of Christ: but I have beene baptized, and admitted into the Church; and by that, there is an Obligation; before I understood my selfe, I was bound to beleeve in Christ; God was so carefull of my soule, when I understood nothing, that there should be a Bond for me, to beleeve in Christ: if God had not meant well to my soule, I should not have lived so much as to heare of the Gospell. Thus we should gather upon God, as the woman of Canaan did upon our Saviour Christ, and fight against all distrust, and unbeleefe, and all temptations of Satan, that present God as though he cared not for us: there cannot be too much art, and skill, to helpe our Faith this way.
- 1What use to make of the Gospel.