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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.
And let us make this use of it:1 Let us know when any abasement is sanctified to us,2 it comes from GODS love. If we find any affliction make us inwardly more humble, and tractable, and more pliable; certainly it comes from love, and is directed to our good: and therefore it is in love, because it is directed to our good. For it is well taken away in earthly things, that is supplied in heavenly and spiritual. What if God take away such outward honours, and respects, and riches; if God make it up in graces ⟨p. 102⟩that are eternal, that make us truly and inwardly good, which all the outward things in the world cannot do? All the Empires in the world cannot make a man an honest man: they may make him worse; they may be snares to make him forget God and himself; they may be a means of his damnation without wondrous care. What if God take away a great deal of these things, and make them up in favours of a higher kind? Therefore if we find God sanctify any outward abasement for the inward good of our souls, let us bless him for it, and take it in good part as an evidence of his love: for God thus deals with his children, he sanctifies their outward abasements for their inward good, to draw them nearer to himself.
And let us make this use of it:1 Let us know when any abasement is sanctified to us,2 it comes from GODS love. If wee finde any affliction make us inwardly more humble, and tractable, and more pliable; certainely it comes from love, and is directed to our good: and therefore it is in love, because it is directed to our good. For it is well taken away in earthly things, that is supplied in heavenly and spirituall. What if God take away such outward honours, and respects, and riches; if God make it up in graces ⟨p. 102⟩that are eternall, that make us truly and inwardly good, which all the outward things in the world cannot doe? All the Empires in the world cannot make a man an honest man: they may make him worse; they may be snares to make him forget God and himselfe; they may be a meanes of his damnation without wondrous care. What if God take away a great deale of these things, and make them up in favours of a higher kinde? Therefore if we finde God sanctifie any outward abasement for the inward good of our soules, let us blesse him for it, and take it in good part as an evidence of his love: for God thus deales with his children, he sanctifies their outward abasements for their inward good, to draw them neerer to himselfe.