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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.
Because the dispensation Ministerial, is not enough, unless there be an applying grace in the heart; and that is a spirit of Faith, whose property is,1 to make peculiar that that is offered: There is a virtue of application, in this grace of Faith; where there is a giving, there must be a receiving, or else the gift is uneffectuall. Christ is the Garment of the Soul, he is the foundation, and food, &c. As I said before, he is our Husband, we must give our consent; believing, is a spiritual marriage: in marriage, there must be a consent; this consent, is Faith; that makes up the Bond between Christ ⟨p. 141⟩and the believing soul. Therefore, of necessity there must be Faith; all else, without believing in Christ, is nothing. Faith is the means of making Christ our own, and no other thing whatsoever.