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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…

Name: Light from heaven discovering the fountain opened. Angels acclamations. Churches riches. Rich poverty. In…
Author: Richard Sibbes

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.

Richard Sibbes 1577–1635London: printed by E. Purslow and Richard Badger for N. Bourne, 1638

[20], 199, [4], 202-297, [1], 157, [19] p. · 130k words · STC 22498 · ESTC S117381

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

THE CHURCHES RICHES BY CHRISTS POVERTY. › Christ was rich.THE CHVRCHES RICHES BY CHRISTS POVERTY. › Christ was rich.

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But Christ being God,¹ was it needful that he should become poor, might not an Angel, or some other creature have served for the work?

But Christ being God,¹ was it needfull that he should become poore, might not an Angell, or some other creature have served for the worke?

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No, God being rich must become poor, or else he had not been able to bring us back again to God;¹ It is an act of Divine power to bring us back again to God,² and he that shall settle us in a firmer state then we had in Adam, must be God; To stablish us stronger, and to convey grace to us, to make our state firm, only God can do it. There are some things in the mediation of Christ that belongs to ministry, and some things to authority, those that belong to Ministry, are to be a servant, and to die, and that he must be man for; but there are some things belong to authority, and power, as to bring us back to God, to convey his Spirit to preserve us from Satan our great enemy,¹ for these works of authority, it was requisite he should be God. In a word, the greatness of the ill we were in, required it: who could deliver us from the bondage of Satan, but God? he must be stronger then the strong man that must drive him out: who could know our spiritual wants, the terrors of our conscience, and heal, and comfort them, but God by his Spirit? Who could free us from the wrath of the great God, but he that was equal with God?²

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Sibbes 1577–1635

Place

London

Printer

E. Purslow and Richard Badger

Bookseller

N. Bourne

Year

1638

Size

[20], 199, [4], 202-297, [1], 157, [19] p.

Words

130,323

Catalogue

STC 22498 · ESTC S117381

Text

EEBO-TCP A12186

Passages

1,117

Sections

254

Title page

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…

¹Christ became poor.

¹Christ became poore.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

1Christ became poor.

1Christ became poore.

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¹Christ became poor.

¹Christ became poore.