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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.
The first of these I will but touch, because it doth but make way to the other.
The love that God bears towards man, hath divers terms, from divers relations, as it is a ⟨p. 281⟩propension in him to do good, so it is love. As it is his free, so it is his good pleasure or grace, as it is to persons in misery, it is mercy. The fountain of all is love. But as the object is diversely considered, so the terms be divers, good pleasure and grace imply freedom in the party loving, and mercy implies misery in the party loved.
The love that God beares towards man, hath divers termes, from divers relations, as it is a ⟨p. 281⟩propension in him to doe good, so it is love. As it is his free, so it is his good pleasure or grace, as it is to persons in miserie, it is mercy. The fountaine of all is love. But as the object is diversely considered, so the termes be divers, good pleasure and grace imply freedome in the party loving, and mercy implies misery in the party loved.