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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.
Received up in glory.
1This is the last Branch of this Divine Mystery of Godliness, but it is none of the least. Christ ascended, if we respect himself; he was received, if we look to his Father; himself ascended, his Father received him: the Scripture hath both words; [Greek or Hebrew], he ascended up, that is, for himself; [Greek or Hebrew], he was received up; that is, he was assumed; there is no difficulty in the words: he ascend•d up, as well as he was received up, positively, as well as passively. In his death, he was •ot only crucified by others, and delivered by his Father, but he gave himself to death; so he was not only received up in glory, but he ascended up into glory. This shows the exaltation of Christ. ⟨p. 165⟩The Apostle begins with, God manifest in the flesh; there is the descent: a great Mystery, for the great God to descend into the Womb of a Virgin, to descend to the lowest parts of the Earth: and then he ends with this, Received up in Glory. The ascent is, from whence the descent was. Christ ascended, and was received as high as the place was whence he came down: God manifest in the flesh, that is the beginning of all; Received up in Glory, that is the consummation, and shutting up of all. It implies all; his Exaltation, his Resurrection, his Ascension, his sitting at the right hand of God, and his coming to judge the quick and the dead: especially is meant his Glory, after his Resurrection, his Ascension, and sitting at the right hand of God; yet supposing his Resurrection,