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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.
5And they have no peace with themselves, they speak peace to themselves, but alas God speaks none to them, they make a Covenant with death and hell, but death and hell make no Covenant with them, so it is a forced sleepy peace, it is a dead sleep, the peace they have, it is but ad•ersion to other things, they […] selves, and the war the[…] themselves, and […] ⟨p. 255⟩••uce that they take up for a time; when God opens their conscience, there is a hell in their hearts and souls, that when it is loosed, makes them to suffer a hell upon earth, they enter into the pains of hell before their time, so there is no peace to the wicked at all, there is since the fall, a separation between God and man, between Angels and man, between man and the creatures, between man and himself.
5And they have no peace with themselves, they speake peace to themselves, but alas God speaks none to them, they make a Covenant with death and hell, but death and hell make no Covenant with them, so it is a forced sleepy peace, it is a dead sl•ep, the peace they have, it is but ad•ersion to oth•r things, they 〈…〉 selves, and the warre the〈…〉 themselves, and 〈…〉 ⟨p. 255⟩••uce that they take up for a time; when God opens their conscience, there is a hell in their hearts and soules, that when it is loosed, makes them to suffer a hell upon earth, they enter into the paines of hell before their time, so there is no peace to the wicked at all, there is since the fall, a separation betweene God and man, betweene Angels and man, betweene man and the creatures, betweene man and himselfe.
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