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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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It is a disabling of Christ to think of falling away from grace: he is able to maintain us in that glorious condition that he hath advanced us to: especially, considering that he is now in heaven, and hath laid aside the form of a servant; all his humiliation, except our humane nature, that for ever he hath united to his person, but all other things of his abasement he hath laid them aside, he is able perfectly (not only to save us, as by his death: but) to apply all that he hath gotten, and ⟨p. 34⟩preserve us to life everlasting. We are kept by the power of God, to that glory that Christ hath purchased by his death. Therefore why should we fear (for the time to come) falling from grace or the want of that that is good; is not Christ able to maintain that that he hath gotten? Let us raise our hearts with this consideration, what Christ can do now in glory, when his poverty could do thus much.
It is a disabling of Christ to thinke of falling away from grace: he is able to maintaine us in that glorious condition that he hath advanced us to: especially, considering that he is now in heaven, and hath laid aside the forme of a servant; all his humiliation, except our humane nature, that for ever hee hath united to his person, but all other things of his abasement he hath laid them aside, he is able perfectly (not only to save us, as by his death: but) to apply all that he hath gotten, and ⟨p. 34⟩preserve us to life everlasting. We are kept by the power of God, to that glory that Christ hath purchased by his death. Therefore why should we feare (for the time to come) falling from grace or the want of that that is good; is not Christ able to maintaine that that he hath gotten? Let us raise our hearts with this consideration, what Christ can doe now in glory, when his poverty could do thus much.
1Again: let us despise no man for his poverty: for Christ was poor to make us rich: and as those that despised Christ, and esteemed him not, but hid their faces from him, because he grew up as a root out of a dry ground, because there was no beauty in him, that is, because of his poverty, because he was a Carpenters son, they despised by this means the Lord of Glory: so those that despised his poor members afterward that wandered up and down in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute and afflicted,