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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 to Glory.
Glory implies three things:1 It is an exemption from that which is opposite, and a conquering over the contrary base condition. It implies some great eminency, and excellency, as the foundation of it, and then a manifestation of that excellency; and it implies victory over all opposition. Though there be excellency, if there be not a manifestation of that excellency, it is not glory. Christ was inwardly glorious, while he was on Earth, in the state of abasement; he had true glory, as he was God and man; but there was not a manifestation of it, and therefore it is not properly called glory; there was not a victory, ⟨p. 166⟩and subduing of all that was contrary to his glory: for, he was abased, and suffered in the Garden, and died. But where these three are an exemption and freedom from all baseness, and all that may diminish reckoning and estimation, and when there is a foundation of true excellency and likewise, a shining, a declaring & breaking forth of that excellency; there is glory. But Christ, after he was manifest in the flesh, and had done the work here that he had to do, he was received up to glory; that is, all baseness was laid aside: his glory appearing, all abasement did vanish; he was victorious over that: for, in his Resurrection, that was the first degree of his glory; you know, the Clothes that he was bound with, were left in the Grave, the Stone was removed; all things that might hinder his glory, that might abase him in body, in soul, or condition, they were removed: there was an excellency in all, that was not before, in regard of manifestation. For his Body, it was now impassible, an immortal, spiritual Body, it could suffer no longer; it was not fed with meat and drink, as in the time of his abasement; it was a Body so agile, and so nimble, that he could move even as he would himself: so there was a glory put upon his Body, above the Sun. There was a glory upon the Soul; all that might hinder that, was subdued; for, there was no sorrow, no fear, nor grief, as there was in his Soul, before he was glorified: so both in Body and Soul he was more glorious.