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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.
In the next place, let us come to discover this disposition of poverty of spirit where it is.
And then show some helps to it.
And then shew some helpes to it.
1First to discover where this blessed frame of soul is. Surely those that are thus poor in spirit, they are full of prayer. The poor man speaks supplications, as the Wise man saith,1 that is his dialect. The poor man is much in prayer, he that is poor in spirit, is much in supplication: for prayers they are the Ambassadors of the poor soul to God, to supply it with the riches of his grace. Therefore where there is no prayer, there is no sense of poverty, but there is a Laodicean temper, as if they were rich enough. You have a company of men, they say they cannot pray privately, their spirits are barren. They intimate much pride of ⟨p. 121⟩spirit: for if a man be sensible of his wants, you need not supply him with words. If a poor tenant come to a Land-lord, and find he hath a hard bargain, let him alone for telling his tale; I warrant you he will lay open the state of his wife and children, and the ill year he hath had, he will be eloquent enough. Take any man that is sensible of his wants, and you shall not need to dictate words to him. There is no man that hath a humble and broken heart, (though he be never so illiterate) but he will have a large heart to God in this kind.
1First to discover where this blessed frame of soule is. Surely those that are thus poore in spirit, they are full of prayer. The poore man speakes supplications, as the Wiseman saith,