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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.
He calls these Angels a heavenly Host,1 in divers respects, especially in these:
- 1These Angels called an Host.
An Host for number,1 here are a number set down. A multitude is distinct from an Host, but in that they are an Host, they are multitude, as in Dan. 7.10.2 Ten thousand times ten thousand Angels attend upon God. And so Rev. 5. 11. There are a world of Angels about the Church; in Heb. 12.22.3 We are come to have communion with an innumerable company of Angels: he sets not down the number, and here appears a multitude of Angels. Worldly sottish men that live here below, they think there is no other state of things then they see, they are only taken up with sense, and pleasures, and goodly shows of things; alas, poor souls, there is another manner of state, and frame of things, if they had spiritual eyes to see the glory of God, and of Christ our ⟨p. 206⟩Saviour, and their attendants there, an Host, a multitude of heavenly Angels.
An Host for number,1 here are a number set downe. A multitude is distinct from an Host, but in that they are an Host, they are multitude, as in