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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.
I come now to the state and condition of these people: An afflicted and poor people.
I come now to the state and condition of these people: An afflicted and poore people.
This is their state and condition, wherein is implied also their disposition: their state is, they are an afflicted and poor people; so it is answerable to the original, an afflicted and impoverished people, a weakened people. How ever God hath a special care of his Church in this world: Yet it is w•th exception of some crosses and afflictions. You shall have an hundred fold (saith Christ) in this life; but with tribulations, and afflictions; that must come in. But yet notwithstanding here is a blessing in this: for howsoever lhe leave them an afflicted and poor people, yet he leaves them a people: and though they be a people afflicted and poor: yet they are a people that are rich in God, they shall trust in the name of the Lord, of which I shall speak afterward. In that he calls them an afflicted and poor people, hence we see in the first place, that,
This is their state and condition, wherein is implied also their disposition: their state is, they are an afllicted and poore people; so it is answerable to the originall, an afflicted and impoverished people, a weakned people. How ever God hath a speciall care of his Church in this world: Yet it is w•th exception of some crosses and afflictions. You shall have an hundred fold (saith Christ) in this life; but with tribulations, and afflictions; that must come in. But yet notwithstanding here is a blessing in this: for howsoever lhe leave them an afflicted and poore people, yet he leaves them a people: and though they be a people afflicted and poore: yet they are a people that are rich in God, they shall trust in the name of the Lord, of which I shall speake afterward. In that he cals them an afflicted and poore people, hence wee see in the first place, that,