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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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To conclude all:1As the soul of man is first sinful, and then sanctified; first humble, and then raised: so our meditations of Christ must be in this order; first, think of Christ, as abased and crucified: for, the first comfort that the soul hath, is in Christ manifested in the flesh, before it come to received up into glory. Therefore, if we would have comfortable thoughts of this, Christ received up in glory, think of him first manifest in the flesh: let us have recourse in our thoughts to Christ, in the Womb of the Virgin; to Christ borne, and lying in the Manger; going up and down, doing good; hungering and thirsting, suffering in the Garden, sweating water and blood, nailed on the Cross, crying to his Father, My God▪ my God, why hast thou forsaken me; finishing all upon the Cross, lying three days in the Grave: have recourse to Christ thus abased, and ⟨p. 198⟩all for us, to expiate our sin; he obeyed God, to satisfy for our disobedience. Oh, here will be comfortable thoughts for a wounded soul, pierced with the sense of sin, assaulted by Satan: To think thus of Christ, abased for our sins; and then to think of him taken up into glory.
To conclude all:1As the soule of man is first sinfull, and then sanctified; first humble, and then raysed: so our meditations of Christ must be in this order; first, thinke of Christ, as abased and crucified: for, the first comfort that the soule hath, is in Christ manifested in the flesh, before it come to received up into glory. Therefore, if we would have com•ortable thoughts of this, Christ received up in glory, thinke of him first manifest in the flesh: let us have recourse in our thoughts to Christ, in the Wombe of the Virgin; to Christ borne, and lying in the Manger; going up and downe, doing good; hungring and thirsting, suffering in the Garden, sweating water and blood, nayled on the Crosse, crying to his Father, My God▪ my God, why hast thou forsaken me; finishing all upon the Crosse, lying three dayes in the Grave: have recourse to Christ thus abased, and ⟨p. 198⟩