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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.
Again, that we may be poor in spirit, help our selves,3 with presenting to our selves abasing, emptying considerations. What be they? Among the rest, reflect our minds back to what we were before God showed mercy upon us;1 how unprofitably we spent our days; what a deal of good we left undone that we might have done.2 For the present, consider the imperfections that hang upon us, whereby we even defile the best performances that come from us; let us have in the eye of our ⟨p. 131⟩foul presented our special corruptions for the present.3 For the time to come let us present to our souls what will become of us ere long, that for outward things, that nature is prone to be highly conceited of, they shall lye in the dust, these bodies of ours must lye low in the dust, all other things must be taken from us, and we from them, we know not how soon; let us oft think and consider of the vanity of all things, what will all things be ere long? They must all come to nothing, the fire will consume all that is glorious in the world, there will be no excellency but the excellency of Christ, and his church, and children, and think of the day of Judgment, what will stand for currant then; think of the time of our dissolution, how we shall appear before Christ, what we have in us that will give us confidence at that day, and time, to look upon him with comfort, that those thoughts of the time to come, of death, and Judgment, and eternity, may not be frightful to us. The consideration of these things will make us to look about us, and make us indeed poor in spirit.
Againe, that we may be poore in spirit, helpe our selves,3 with presenting to our selves abasing, emptying considerations. What be they? Among the rest, reflect our mindes back to what we were before God shewed mercy upon us;1