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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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1To hasten, considering Gods free love, opened now in Jesus Christ, I beseech you, let us study Christ, and labour to get into Christ, daily more and more, that we may be members of Christ, and desire God, daily more and more, to reveal himself in Christ to us, that we may see his face in Christ, that we may know him, in ⟨p. 295⟩the sweet relations, he hath put on him in the Gospel.
1To hasten, considering Gods free love, opened now in Jesus Christ, I beseech you, let us study Christ, and labour to get into Christ, daily more and more, that wee may be members of Christ, and desire God, daily more and more, to reveale himselfe in Christ to us, that we may see his face in Christ, that wee may know him, in ⟨p. 295⟩the sweet relations, hee hath put on him in the Gospell.
- 1Study Christ daily.
To know God in general as a Creator, and doing good, &c. the Heathens did that by the light of nature, but we should labour to •ee him in the face of Christ, that is, to see him appeased, and loving us, wishing us well, concerning eternal glory, that must be by the light of the Gospel, and by the Spirit: therefore in hearing of the Word, and reading, and meditating, desire God above all, to reveal by his Spirit, his gracious face in Christ, that in Christ we may see him as a Father, as a Husband, as a Friend, in those sweet relations of love that he hath taken upon him. It should be our daily desire of God, to manifest his love more to us in Christ Jesus, then in any other fruits of his love: for there be common fruits, as to give us health, and friends, and liberty, and quiet government, which are great favours, that we see denied to many nations: oh! but the soul that is touched with the spirit of God, and the sense of his own condition by nature, is thus disposed; Lord I desire, that thou wouldest show the fruits of thy love to me, but I desire not so much those common fruits, that the reprobates may have as well as I: oh! show me by thy holy spirit,