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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.
In that the Angels begin with the glory of God, I might speak of this doctrine, that
In that the Angels begin with the glory of God, I might speake of this doctrine, that
1The glory of God, the setting forth of the excellencies, and eminences of the Lord, should be the end of our lives, the chief thing we should aim at.
1The glory of God, the setting forth of the excellencies, and eminencies of the Lord, should be the end of our lives, the chiefe thing we should ayme at.
- 1The glory of God, our chief end and aim.The glory of God, our chiefe end and ayme.
The Angels here begin with it, and we begin with it in the Lords prayer, hallowed be thy name, it should be our main employment, Of him and by him are all things, therefore to him be glory, Rom. 11.1 Therefore we should give God that which is his own, Thine is the glory, as it is in the conclusion of the Lords Prayer; but this being, a general point, I will pass it by, and come to the particular, in which, […] will more comfortably appear, as this glory shines in Christ, in the Incarnation of Christ, there is matter of glorifying God, both the Angels and men.