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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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And then labour to see the excellency of the grace we want,2 and that will stretch and enlarge our desires. And withal see the necessity of grace: we must have faith, hope, and love, we cannot live as Christians else: we must have contentation, we shall live miserably else: we cannot be like Christ without grace,
And then labour to see the excellency of the grace we want,2 and that will stretch and inlarge our desires. And withall see the necessity of grace: we must have faith, hope, and love, we cannot live as Christians else: we must have contentation, we shall live miserably else: we cannot be like Christ without grace,
- 2See the excellency of grace
And withal know that Christ is rich for us:3 he hath not only abundance of the Spirit, but redundance to overflow to us his members; as the head hath redundance of spirits, and senses for the use of the whole body, it sees, and feels, and smells, for the use of the whole body: whatsoever Christ hath, he hath for us. Let us labour to know our riches as we are Christians; as we grow in other things, so to be acquainted with that we have in Christs. As Children that are heirs to great things; at the first they are ignorant of what they have; but as they grow in years, so they grow in further knowledge of that that belongs to them, and they grow in spirit answerable and suitable to that they shall have: let grace agree with nature in this, let us desire to know our riches in Jesus Christ.
And withall know that Christ is rich for us:3 he hath not only abundance of the Spirit, but redundance to overflow to us his members; as the head hath redundance of spirits, and senses for the use of the whole body, it sees, and feeles, and smels, for the use of the whole body: whatsoever Christ hath, he hath for us. Let us labour to know our riches as we are Christians; as we grow in other things, so to be acquainted with that we have in Christs. As Children that are heires to great things; at the first they are ignorant of what they have; but as they grow in yeares, so they grow in further knowledg of that that belongs to them, and they grow in spirit answerable and suitable to that they shall have: let grace agree with nature in this, let us desire to know our riches in Iesus Christ.