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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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1Therefore before he took our nature upon him, he was Mediator from the beginning, he was yesterday to day, and to morrow, and the same for ever, as the Apostle saith, He was, and is, and is to come, he was the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world: For howsoever he took our nature upon him, and paid the debt, yet he undertook the payment before the beginning of the world.2 A man may let a prisoner loose now, upon a promise to pay the debt a year after: so Christ undertook to take our nature and to pay our debt in the fullness of time; by virtue therefore of his future incarnation, he was an effectual Mediator from the beginning of the world. As we have now the fruit of his mediation though his death be past, the act is past, but the fruit remains: so that he was a ⟨p. 9⟩Mediator before he came in the flesh, because he undertook to his Father to discharge the office.
1Therefore before hee tooke our nature upon him, hee was Mediator from the beginning, hee was yesterday to day, and to morrow, and the same for ever, as the Apostle saith, Hee was, and is, and is to come, hee was the Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world: For howsoever hee tooke our nature upon him, and paid the debt, yet hee undertooke the payment before the beginning of the world.2 A man may let a prisoner loose now, upon a promise to pay the debt a yeare after: so Christ undertooke to take our nature and to pay our debt in the fulnesse of time; by vertue therefore of his future incarnation, hee was an effectuall Mediator from the beginning of the world. As we have now the fruit of his mediation though his death bee past, the act is past, but the fruit remaines: so that hee was a ⟨p. 9⟩Mediator before hee came in the flesh, because hee undertooke to his Father to discharge the office.
- 1Christ a Mediator from the beginning.