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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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1And then we have this grand prerogative, that all things shall turn to the best to us: what a privilege is this that there should be a blessing in the worst things, that the worst things to a child of God should be better then the best things to others, that the want, and poverty of a Christian should be better, then the riches of the world? because there is riches hid in his worst condition: ⟨p. 21⟩condition; Moses esteemed the rebuke of Christ, greater riches then the treasures of Egypt. A cross or the want of any blessing sanctified, is better then the thing enjoyed that hath not Gods blessing with it; a Christian is so rich that •ee is blessed in his very afflictions, and sufferings it is a greater prerogative to have ill turned to our good, then not to have the ill at all. It is an argument of greater power, and of greater goodness, that God should turn the greatest ills, the greatest wrongs, and discomforts, to the greatest good, as he doth to his children: for by them he draws them nearer to himself. Hereupon the Apostle saith, all things are yours, things present, and things to come, &c. reductively they are ours, God turns them to our good, he extracts good to us by them; all good things are ours in a direct course, and other things by an over-ruling power, are deduced to our good, contrary to the nature of the things themselves. What, did I say all things are ours? yea God himself is ours, and he hath all things, that hath him that hath all things: now in Christ God himself is become ours, all things are yours, you are Christs, and Christ is Gods, and Rom. 5.10,2 we rejoice in God, as ours, if God be ours his all sufficiency is ours, his power is ours, his wisdom, all is ours for our comfort.
1And then wee have this grand prerogative, that all things shall turne to the best to us: what a priviledge is this that there should be a blessing in the worst things, that the worst things to a child of God should bee better then the best things to others, that the want, and poverty of a Christian should be better, then the riches of the world? because there is riches hid in his worst condition: