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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.
It is a point not altogether fruitless,1 it yields some comfort,2 to know, that when we are taken hence, others shall stand up when we are gone, the Church shall not dye with us. Is not that a comfort when a Christian yields his soul to God, to think: yet God will have a Church and people, ⟨p. 84⟩[…] ⟨p. 85⟩[…] ⟨p. 86⟩(if not among us, yet in some other part of the world,) he will have some that shall glorify him in this world, that shall adorn and beautify religion, and shall for ever be glorified with him in Heaven, till he hath made an end of these sinful days? It is some comfort, I say, that goodness shall live after us, that the Gospel shall continue after us. There shall be a posterity to the end of the world, that shall stand for the truth and cause of God. The world was not, nor ever shall be so bad, but God hath had, and will have, a party in the world, that shall stand for him, and he for them. Now the children of God, as they know God hath a purpose to glorify them world without end: so they have a desire that God may be glorified world without end, and from this desire comes joy, when they think that there will be a people one earth to glorify God still, when they are taken hence: for it is a disposition wrought from Gods peculiar love, to wish that God may ever have his praise here in the world, while it is a world, and for ever in the world to come: therefore it is a comfort to them to think that God will always have a Church.
It is a point not altogether fruitlesse,1 it yeelds some comfort,2 to know, that when we are taken hence, others shall stand up when we are gone, the Church shall not dye with us. Is not that a comfort when a Christian yeelds his soule to God, to think: yet God will have a Church and people, ⟨p. 84⟩