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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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Christ not only as God,1 is gracious, and was willing to the wo•k of salvation: but as the meritorious cause of the grace of his Father: for grace should not have been derived to us from the Father, unless first it had been seated on Christ in our nature, and in him derived to us.
Christ not only as God,1 is gracious, and was willing to the wo•k of salvation: but as the meritorious cause of the grace of his Father: for grace should not have beene derived to us from the Father, unlesse first it had beene seated on Christ in our nature, and in him derived to us.
- 1Christ the meritorious cause of grace.
The work of salvation as it is from Christ,1 so it is from the grace of Christ; therefore it was free and voluntary: what so free as grace? Therefore Christs abasement and poverty, it was merely voluntary; if it had not been voluntary, it had not been meritorious and satisfactory. It was a free-will offering, it was of grace, not forced and commanded without his own consent, it was merely of grace, for our good and salvation; that we might have the more comfort, it was a free-will offering. He seemed as man to decline death, to show the truth of his manhood: but when again he considered wherefore his Father sent him, Not my will, but thine be done; and with joy, With a desire have I desired to eat my last Passover with you: and I have a baptism, and how am I pained till I be baptized with it? How ever to show the truth of his manhood he feared Death; yet (when he considered what he was sent for) it was with a resignation to the Divine Nature, so it was a free-will offering and a sacrifice of a sweet smell to God the Father.