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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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1First of all, we must lay this for a ground and foundation of what follows, That Christ ascended as a public person: he must not be considered as a particular person, alone by himself, but as the second Adam: As he took the nature of man, in his Incarnation; so he ascended into Heaven in it, as a public person: As the first Adam was, in whom we all sinned, and all came to misery, and baseness, and died; so Christ must be considered as the second Adam, as in other things, so in his ascension to glory.
1First of all, we must lay this for a ground and foundation of what followes, That Christ ascended as a publike person: he must not be considered as a particular person, alone by himselfe, but as the second Adam: As he tooke the nature of man, in his Incarnation; so he ascended into Heaven in it, as a publike person: As the first Adam was, in whom we all sinned, and all came to misery, and basenesse, and died; so Christ must be considered as the second Adam, as in other things, so in his ascension to glory.
- 1Christ ascended as a public person.Christ ascended as a publike person.
2In the second place, we must know, that there is a wondrous nearness between Christ and us now: for, before we can think of any comfort by the glory of Christ, we must be one with him by Faith; for, he is the Saviour of his Body: therefore, we must be in him, we must be his members, we must be his Spouse; and being so once, we are one with Christ. There is no relation in the world, that is able to express the nearness between Christ and us sufficiently: and therefore, when we speak of Christ ascended into glory, we must needs think of our selves, & of our glory, and advancement: he was taken up to glory in our nature, not only for himself, but for all his. As the husband of the Church, he is gone before, to take up Heaven for his wife; as a husband takes up