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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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1Then again, we are rich in prerogatives, we are the sons of God by adoption, what love (saith the Apostle) hath the Father showed, that we should be called the sons of God? and this we have by the poverty of Christ: whatsoever Christ is by nature, we are by grace; he is the Son of God by nature, we are his sons by grace; and being sons, we are heirs, heirs of heaven, and heirs of the world, as much as shall serve for our good, all things are ours by virtue of our adoption, because we are Christs, and Christ is Gods: there is a world of riches in this, to be the sons of God.
1Then againe, wee are rich in prerogatives, we are the sonnes of God by adoption, what love (saith the Apostle) hath the Father shewed, that wee should be called the sonnes of God? and this wee have by the poverty of Christ: whatsoever Christ is by nature, we are by grace; he is the Sonne of God by nature, we are his sonnes by grace; and being sons, we are heires, heires of heaven, and heires of the world, as much as shall serve for our good, all things are ours by vertue of our adoption, because we are Christs, and Christ is Gods: there is a world of riches in this, to be the sonnes of God.
- 1In prerogatives Adoption.
1And what a prerogative is this, that we have liberty, and boldness to the throne of grace, as it is Ephes. 3.2 that we have boldness to appear before God, to call him Father, to open our necessities, to fetch all things needful, to have the ear of the King of heaven, and earth, to be favourites in the court of heaven? every Christian may now go boldly to God, because the matter of distance, our sins, which make a separation between God and us, they are taken away, and the mercy of God runs amain to us, our nature in Christ standing pure and holy before God.