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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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Again,1 we glorify God, when we take to heart any thing that may hinder, or stop, or eclipse Gods truth, and obscure it, when it works zeal in us in our places, as far as we can, when it affects us deeply, to see the cause of Religion hindered any way, if there be any desire of glorifying God, there will be zeal, the heart will move, with a kind of indignation, when God is dishonoured, and his truth eclipsed, with false doctrine, or by ill practice; it cannot be otherwise, it is out of the nature of the thing it self; therefore those that either are instruments of stopping or obscuring the truth, or causing it to be reproached, by their wicked lives, or if they be not instruments, yet they do not take it to heart, when they see God dishonoured, surely they can speak little comfort to themselves, they have ⟨p. 238⟩neither Angelical, nor Evangelical dispositions, for if they had the knowledge of the Gospel, it would work this is in them.
Againe,1 we glorifie God, when we take to heart any thing that may hinder, or stoppe, or eclipse Gods truth, and obscure it, when it workes zeale in us in our places, as farre as we can, when it affects us deepely, to see the cause of Religion hindred any way, if there be any desire of glorifying God, there will be zeale, the heart will move, with a kind of indignation, when God is dishonoured, and his truth eclipsed, with false doctrine, or by ill practice; it cannot be otherwise, it is out of the nature of the thing it selfe; therefore those that either are instruments of stopping or obscuring the truth, or causing it to be reproached, by their wicked lives, or if they be not instruments, yet they doe not take it to heart, when they see God dishonoured, surely they can speake little comfort to themselves, they have ⟨p. 238⟩neither Angelicall, nor Evangelicall dispositions, for if they had the knowledge of the Gospell, it would worke this is in them.
- 1When we grieve at the hinderances of Gods glory.