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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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1Now to stir us up to express Christ in our lives and conversations. Let us consider. The more like we are to Christ, the more he delights in us (for every one delights in those that are like them) and what a sweet state is it for God and Christ to delight in us? •od the Father will delight in us, ⟨p. 67⟩because we are like the Son of his delight; whom doth God delight most in? In his own blessed Son; and who come nearest in his delight to his Son? Those that express him in their lives and conversations.
1Now to stir us up to expresse Christ in our lives and conversations. Let us consider. The more like we are to Christ, the more he delights in us (for every one delights in those that are like them) and what a sweet state is it for God and Christ to delight in us? •od the Father will delight in us, ⟨p. 67⟩because we are like the Son of his delight; whom doth God delight most in? In his owne blessed Sonne; and who come neerest in his delight to his Sonne? Those that expresse him in their lives and conversations.
- 1Motives to follow Christs example.
The more like we are to Christ, the more like we shall be one to another. As if there be one Statue, or Picture, or Effigies, that is set for the first sample, the nearer the rest come to that, the more like they are one to another: so I say, the nearer Christians come to the first pattern of goodness, Christ himself (who is Gods master-piece (as it were) that which he glories in) the more we come to be like one another, and love and joy one in another. What is the sweet communion that we shall have one with another for ever in Heaven? Is it not that the Spirit shall be all in all in every one, and each shall look upon another, as perfect in grace and love, and so shall solace and delight themselves first in God, and Christ, and then in one another, admiring and reverencing the graces and sweetness one of another. This is the very joy of Heaven it self, and it is the Heaven upon Earth, when we can joy and solace our selves one in another, as we are good. Now the nearer we come to Christ who is the Image of God, the more we shall attain this. Therefore let us labour that Christ may be all in all in us; that as the soul doth act the body, so the Spirit of Christ may act us, that Christ may speak in us, and think in us, and love in us by his Spirit; that he may dwell in us, and joy, and hate in us by his Spirit; that we