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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
THE CHURCHES RICHES BY CHRISTS POVERTY.THE CHVRCHES RICHES BY CHRISTS POVERTY.
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.
1It is the best way to provide for thy children, Psalm. 112. God provides for the posterity of the righteous bounteous man. A ⟨p. 77⟩man is not the poorer for discreet mercy. It is seed (as I said before) a poor man labours to have his seed sown, because it returns plentifully. Let us be sober and abate of our superfluous expenses: pride is an expender, and superfluous lusts; let us cut off from them, that we may have somewhat for seed; let us labour in an honest calling, that we may have somewhat to give. Oh, it is a blessed thing to give! It is a thing that must be gotten by use, our souls must be exercised to it, and when we have gotten it, learn an art of giving, we must exercise faith in it.2 And when we come to dye, it will make us dye wondrous sweetly: for when a man hath depended by faith, and trust upon Gods promise, that He that gives to the poor, lends to the Lord, and other like promises. I have exercised liberality, and now I come to give up my soul to God, I believe that God will make good the promise of life everlasting. I have believed his other promises before, and though I have cast my seed into the ground that I saw it not, yet I have found that God hath blessed me the better, in a way that I know not; and now I depend upon the same gracious God, in the promise of life everlasting. We should labour to do this, that we may die with comfort.