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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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1Again, though a Christian be poor, yet he hath rich promises, and faith puts those promises in suite, and presseth God with them. If a man have bonds, and obligations of a rich man, he thinks himself as rich as those bonds amount to. There is no Christian but hath a rich faith, and rich promises from God, and when he stirs up his faith, he can put those promises in suite (if it ⟨p. 29⟩be not his own fault) in all his necessities: therefore a Christian cannot be so poor as to be miserable. I know flesh and blood measureth riches after another manner. But is not he richer that hath a fountain, then he that hath but a cistern? A man that is not a Christian though he be never so rich, he hath but a cistern, his riches are but few, they are soon searched: but a Christian though he be poor, his riches are unsearchable. An other man, though he be a Monarch, his riches may be reckoned, and cast up, it is but a cistern, and such riches as he cannot carry with him: but a Christian hath a fountain, a Mine that is unsearchable in the rich promises of God.
1Againe, though a Christian bee poore, yet hee hath rich promises, and faith puts those promises in suite, and presseth God with them. If a man have bonds, and obligations of a rich man, hee thinkes himselfe as rich as those bonds amount to. There is no Christian but hath a rich faith, and rich promises from God, and when he stirres up his faith, he can put those promises in suite (if it ⟨p. 29⟩be not his owne fault) in all his necessities: therfore a Christian cannot be so poore as to be miserable. I know flesh and blood measureth riches after another manner. But is not he richer that hath a fountaine, then he that hath but a cesterne? A man that is not a Christian though he be never so rich, he hath but a cesterne, his riches are but few, they are soone searched: but a Christian though he bee poore, his riches are unsearchable. An other man, though he be a Monarch, his riches may bee reckoned, and cast up, it is but a cesterne, and such riches as he cannot carry with him: but a Christian hath a fountaine, a Mine that is unsearchable in the rich promises of God.
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