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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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some men never come to the second step, they never understand what sin is, and what the anger and wrath of God is, they will give their conscience no leisure to tell them what their condition is, there is hope of the second, that they will come to the third rank, but for a company of profane persons, opposers of goodness, to talk of the mercy of God in Christ, they are not in the next steppe to it; a ⟨p. 242⟩man must be sensible of his sins, and of his misery, before he can have grace, therefore for those that have too much light, though it be a great fault in some, and hinders God of much glory, and themselves of much comfort, out of this peevish stubbornness of theirs, yet there are not many of them, and as I said, few of them miscarry.
some men never come to the second step, they never understand what sinne is, and what the anger and wrath of God is, they will give their conscience no leisure to tell them what their condition is, there is hope of the second, that they will come to the third rancke, but for a company of prophane persons, opposers of goodnesse, to talke of the mercy of God in Christ, they are not in the next steppe to it; a ⟨p. 242⟩man must be sensible of his sinnes, and of his misery, before he can have grace, therefore for those that have too much light, though it be a great fault in some, and hinders God of much glory, and themselves of much comfort, out of this peevish stubbornesse of theirs, yet there are not many of them, and as I said, few of them miscarry.
1Now, from these two veils that hinder the glory of God, there come other hindrances, for the soul of man will wonder and admire at some-what, it will have some-what in the eye of it, hereupon, not seeing, or not believing the mercy, and goodness, and love of God, and the excellent prerogatives of a Christian, issuing from the goodness of God, and the fruits of it, they dote upon some worldly excellency, either they are proud of their parts, and so God is robbed of his honour, or on creatures meaner then themselves; for the base nature of man, since the fall, it dotes upon earth, upon gold and silver, mean and base things, not to be compared to the excellency of man, or else upon some duties they perform, upon their own works, as if God should be beholding to them, for not knowing themselves well, and the infinite glory of God in Christ, that God must have all the glory, not only of happiness, but of grace that brings us to happiness, they glory in that they have done, as in Popery, they think they merit much by their performance. In the night time a Torch seems a goodly thing, and sometimes,