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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.
God delights in obedience, more then Sacrifice: Gods people that he delights in, they yield their bodies and souls a Sacrifice to God, Rom. 12.1 They will seek out what is well pleasing, and acceptable to God: God accepts them in Christ, and he is acceptable to them in Christ Jesus, and they seek out what pleaseth him, and is acceptable to him: as the sons of Isaac, sought out what might please their old father, what he could relish, so Gods children seek out, what duties God relisheth best. Thanksgiving is a Sacrifice, ⟨p. 290⟩with which God is well pleased: is it so? then they will seek out, that that may please him; God by his Spirit will work in them a disposition, to please him in all things, therefore the people of God, are said, to be a voluntary, free people, zealous of good works, being set at liberty, the Spirit infusing and conveying the love, and good pleasure of God in Christ to them, it sets their wills at liberty, to devise to please God in all things,2 they have as David prays, Psal. 51. A free Spirit. As God, not out of any respect from us, but freely from his own bowels loved us, and gave Christ to us, and delighted in us, so the soul freely without any base respects, loves God again. Those therefore that do duties for base aims, and forced, as fire out of a flint, not as water out of a spring, that duty comes not naturally and sweetly from them, God hath no pleasure in them, because they have none in God, but the good they do is extorted, and drawn from them.
God delights in obedience, more then Sacrifice: Gods people that he delights in, they yeeld their bodies and soules a Sacrifice to God, Rom. 12.1 They will seeke out what is well pleasing, and acceptable to God: God accepts them in Christ, and he is acceptable to them in Christ Iesus, and they seeke out what pleaseth him, and is acceptable to him: as the sonnes of Isaac, sought out what might please their old father, what he could relish, so Gods children seeke out, what duties God relisheth best. Thanksgiving is a Sacrifice,