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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 RICH POVERTY: OR, The Poor-mans Riches.THE RICH POVERTY: OR, The Poore-mans Riches.
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.
ZEPH. 3.12. • will also leave in the middest of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they sha•• trust in the name of the LORD.
ZEPH. 3.12. • will also leave in the middest of thee an afflicted and poore people, and they sha•• trust in the name of the LORD.
Before the Captivity in Babylon, God sent Prophets to his people, as Jeremiah, and among the rest Zephaniah likewise, who lived in the time of Josiah, to forewarn and fore-arm them against worse times.1 And as the Contents of all other Prophesies are for the most part these three: so of this. They are either such expressions and prophesies as set forth the sins of the people: or secondly, the judgments of God ⟨p. 82⟩thirdly, comfort to the remnant, to Gods people; so these be the parts of this prophecy. A laying open of the sins of the time, under so good a Prince as Josiah was: and likewise the judgments of God denounced: and then in this third Chapter especially, here is comfort set down for the good people that then lived: the comfort begins at the ninth verse.
BEfore the Captivity in Babylon, God sent Prophets to his people, as Ieremiah, and among the rest Zephaniah likewise, who lived in the time of Iosias, to forewarne and fore-arme them against worse times.1 And as the Contents of all other Prophesies are for the most part these three: so of this. They are either such expressions and prophesies as set forth the sins of the people: or secondly, the judgments of God