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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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Let us take heed of shallow conceits of Faith;1 as if it were an easy common universal grace, to believe: No, beloved; it is a supernatural powerful work. Saint Paul sets it out divinely,2 and largely, in Ephes. 1.18. He calls it, the Mighty power of God: it requires not only a Power, but an Almighty Power, to raise the heart of man to believe. For, even as the work of Redemption,3 by Christ, is a greater work in it self, then the work of Creation;1 so also the work of Conversion, though they be all one to an infinite Power, yet the thing it self is more difficult, to make the heart of man to believe, then to make a world of nothing: for, when God made the world, ⟨p. 152⟩there was nothing to oppose, there he had to do with simple nothing; but when God comes to make the heart believe, he finds opposition and rebellion, he finds man against himself, he finds the heart and conscience against it self, he finds opposition from Satan, that helps mans distrustful heart; then all meet together, afflictions, the sense of Gods anger, and mans guilty conscience: now to make such a man believe, is more then to create a world▪
Let us take heed of shallow conceits of Faith;1 as if it were an easie common universall grace, to beleeve: No, beloved; it is a supernaturall powerfull worke. Saint Paul sets it out divinely,2 and largely, in Ephes. 1.18. Hee calls it, the Mightie power of God: it requires not onely a Power, but an Almighty Power, to rayse the heart of man to beleeve. For, even as the worke of Redemption,