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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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1The Church it self is a mystical thing: For under baseness, under the scorn of the world, what is hid?2 A glorious people. The state of the Church in this world, it is like a Tree that is weather-beaten, the leaves and fruit are gone, but there is life in the root. So, what is the Church? A company of men that are in the world, without glory, without comeliness and beauty; yet notwithstanding they have life in the root, a hidden life: Our life is hid with Christ, in God, Coloss. 3.3 The Church hath a life, but it is a hidden mystical life, a life under death; they seem to die to the world, but they are alive: This is excellently and rhetorically followed by S. Paul; As dying, and yet we live; as poor, yet making many rich. A strange kind of people; poor, and rich; living, and dying; glorious, and base; yet this is the state of the Church here in this world: they are an excellent people, but they are veiled under infirmities of their own, and the disgraces and persecutions of the world. So, we see both the Doctrine it self, and the Graces, and the Head of the Church, and the Church it self, are nothing but Mysteries.
1The Church it selfe is a mysticall thing: For under basenesse, under the scorne of the world, what is hid?2 A glorious people. The state of the Church in this world, it is like a Tree that is weather-beaten, the leaves and fruit are gone, but there is life in the root. So, what is the Church? A companie of men that are in the world, without glory, without comelinesse and beautie; yet notwithstanding they have life in the root, a hidden life: Our life is hid with Christ, in God, Coloss. 3.3 The Church hath a life, but it is a hidden mysticall life, a life under death; they seeme to die to the world, but they are alive: This is excellently and rhetorically followed by S. Paul; As dying, and yet we live; as poore, yet making many rich. A strange kind of people; poore, and rich; living, and dying; glorious, and base; yet this is the state of the Church here in this world: they are an excellent people, but they are veiled under infirmities of their owne, and the disgraces and persecutions of the world. So, we see both the Doctrine it selfe, and the Graces, and the Head of the Church, and the Church it selfe, are nothing but Mysteries.