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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.
5Again, a man that is poor in spirit, is very tractable, as it is in Isaiah, A Child shall lead them. The Lamb and the Lion shall feed together, &c. and a Child shall lead them: that is, such an one, you shall lead him with any counsel (let the person be never so mean,) having smarted for his sins, and his own counsel and ways, a child shall lead him; that is, any man shall lead and move him to that which is good, he stands not upon terms.
5Againe, a man that is poore in spirit, is very tractable, as it is in Esay, A Child shall lead them. The Lamb and the Lion shall feed together, &c. and a Child shall lead them: that is, such an one, you shall lead him with any counsell (let the person be never so meane,) having smarted for his sins, and his owne counsell and wayes, a child shall lead him; that is, any man shall lead and move him to that which is good, he stands not upon termes.
- 5Tractable.
6And alway he that is poor in spirit, he is no upbraider of other mens wants; he is more sensible of his own, then that he sees in other men: he is not prone to upbraid and object against them their wants and conditions, he is so taken up with the sense of his own.
6And alway hee that is poore in spirit, hee is no upbraider of other mens wants; he is more sensible of his owne, then that he sees in other men: hee is not prone to upbraid and object against them their wants and conditions, hee is so taken up with the sense of his owne.
- 6Upbraids not others.Vpbraids not others.