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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.
Believed on in the world.
Beleeved on in the world.
After preached to the Gentiles, 1he joins, Believed on in the World; to show, that Faith comes by hearing. Indeed, preaching is the Ordinance of God, sanctified for the begetting of Faith, for the opening of ⟨p. 138⟩the understanding, for the drawing of the will and affections to Christ.2 Faith, is the marriage of the Soul to Christ: now, in marriage there must not be a mistake, and error in the person; for, then it is a kind of nullity. Now, that the person to whom we are to be married by Faith, may be known to us, there is an Ordinance of Preaching set up, to lay open our own beggary and necessity, what we are without him, and to open the Riches of our Husband, the Nobility, and Privileges, and whatsoever is glorious in Christ, that the Church may know what a kind of Husband she is like to have.3 In Rom. 10. you have the Scala-Coeli, the Ladder of Heaven,4 as a good old Martyr called it, and we must not presume to alter the Staves of that Ladder: How can they call upon him, in whom they have not believed; and how shall they believe, without a Preacher; and how shall they preach, unless they be sent? Here is Preaching, and Believing; and then Prayer. There are some that are bitter against this Ordinance of Preaching, and advance another excellent Ordinance of Prayer, to the disparagement of this; if they would join them both together, it were well You see what the Apostle saith; How shall they call upon him, in whom they have not believed; and how shall they believe without a Preacher? without this Ordinance of Preaching: Showing, that we cannot have the Spirit of Prayer, without Faith; nor Faith, without Preaching. And the Wise man saith, He that turns his ear from hearing the Law, (under what pretence soever) his prayer shall be abominable. The prayers of such