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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.
1In a City that is obnoxious to the Kings displeasure, perhaps there are some that are not guilty of the offence that the body of the City is, yet being all Citizens, they are all punished, by reason of their communion: so in this respect ⟨p. 13⟩CHRIST became poor, he took upon him our nature, and by communion with that nature, he took upon him whatsoever was penal, that belonged to sin, though he took not, nor could take the demerit of sin.
1In a City that is obnoxious to the Kings displeasure, perhaps there are some that are not guilty of the offence that the body of the City is, yet being all Citizens, they are all punished, by reason of their communion: so in this respect ⟨p. 13⟩CHRIST became poore, hee tooke upon him our nature, and by communio• with that nature, hee tooke upon him whatsoever was penall, that belonged to sinne, though he tooke not, nor could take the demerit of sin.
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Hie was made sin for us; we cannot have a greater argument of Christs poverty, then to be made sin for us, sin is the poorest thing in the world, and the cause of all beggary, and poverty, and misery: he was made under the law, and so became a curse for us, he was made sin, a sacrifice for our sin. In particular, he was borne of a poor Virgin, and instead of a better place, he was laid in an Inn,1 and in the basest place in the Inn, in the manger, As soon as he was borne, his birth was revealed to poor Shepherds, not to Emperors, and Kings, not to C•sar at Rome, Then presently after his birth he was banished together with his mother into Egypt. When he came home again, he was fain to be beholding to a poor woman for a cup of water,