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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The next thing is the ground or spring from whence all this comes,1 it is from grace: you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. It was his ⟨p. 44⟩mere grace. There was nothing that could compel him; God the Father could not compel him, because he was equal with his Father; being God there was an equality of essence.
The next thing is the ground or spring from whence all this comes,1 it is from grace: you know the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ. It was his ⟨p. 44⟩meere grace. There was nothing that could compell him; God the Father could not compell him, because he was equall with his Father; being God there was an equality of essence.
- 1All our riches from Christs grace.
And then, what was there in us that should move him to abase himself so low; was there any worth in us? No, we were dead: was there any strength in us? No, we were dead in sins: was any goodness in us? No, we were Christs enemies: was there any desire in us? No, we were opposite to all goodness in our selves, there was no desire in us to be better then we were: if God should have let us alone to our own desires, we were posting to Hell. It is the greatest misery in the world, next to Hell it self, to be given up to our own desires: A man were better to be given up to the Divill then to his own desires, he may torment him, and perhaps bring him to repentance; but to be given up to his own desires, leads to Hell. It is merely of grace, grace; it was the grace of God the Father that gave his Son,1