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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.
3And there is a desire of the grace and favour of God above all things. Ask a poor man what he would have; he would have that that may supply his poverty and want. Ask a man that is spiritually poor before he be in Christ; what would you have? Oh mercy and pardon; offer him any thing else in the world, it contents him not: but that will content him, the sense and persuasion of Gods love and mercy in Christ Jesus.
3And there is a desire of the grace and favour of God above all things. Aske a poore man what he would have; he would haue that that may supply his poverty and want. Aske a man that is spiritually poore before he be in Christ; what would you have? Oh mercy and pardon; offer him any thing else in the world, it contents him not: but that will content him, the sense and perswasion of Gods love and mercy in Christ Iesus.
- 3Desire of grace chiefly.Desire of grace ch••fly.
4Where this poverty of spirit is, there will be a wondrous earnestness after pardon and mercy, and after grace, to be in an other condition: a man will labour, even as for life. If you come to a poor man that labours for his living, and ask him, why do you labour so? (he will wonder at your idle question) I may starve else (he will say.) A man that is spiritually poor, and sees what a state he is in, he labours in the use of means to have an inward sense of Gods love, to find some beginnings of the new creature, to find a change, to be otherwise then he is, he sees he must perish else; there is a prizing and estimation in him of mercy, and pardon above all things in the world, and a making after it.