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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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Again,1 put case a Christian be poor, he is rich in Christ, and he bears the purse, what if a child have no money in his purse, his father provides all necessaries for him, he is rich as long as his father is rich; and can we be poor as long as ⟨p. 28⟩Christ is rich, being so near us, being our head? we shall want nothing that is needful, and when it is not needful, and for our good, we were better be without it.
Againe,1 put case a Christian bee poore, hee is rich in Christ, and he beares the purse, what if a child have no money in his purse, his father provides all necessaries for him, hee is rich as long as his father is rich; and can we be poore as long as ⟨p. 28⟩Christ is rich, being so neere us, being our head? we shall want nothing that is needefull, and when it is not needfull, and for our good, we were better be without it.
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1Again, he must needs be rich, whose poverty, and crosses are made riches to him. God never takes away, or withholds outward blessings from his children, but he makes it up in better, in inward: they gain by all their losses, and grow rich by their wants: for how many are there in the world that had not been so rich in grace, if they had had abundance of earthly things? so that though they be poor in the world, they are rich to God, rich in grace, rich in faith, as Saint James saith: The greatest grievances and ills in the world turn to a Christians sickness, and shame, and death: the Spirit of God is like the Stone that men talk so of,