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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 they shall trust in the name of the Lord.
This is the carriage of these poor and afflicted people. They shall trust in the name of the Lord.
This is the carriage of these poore and afflicted people. They shall trust in the name of the Lord.
God hath no delight in afflicting his children, he joys and delights in the prosperity of his children; it is our sinful nature that forceth him to afflict us, that he may wean us from the world, because we are prone to surfeit upon things here below, All that God doth is that we may trust in him, which we would never do, unless he did afflict us and make us poor in spirit; but when we are afflicted and poor in spirit and have nothing at home, we will make out abroad, as people in necessity will do: supply must be had, either at home, or from without; and when the soul is beaten and driven out of it self (which requires much ado) then we are fit for this blessed act, here spoken of, to trust in the name of the Lord. And the one is an evidence of the other. How shall we know that we are sufficiently humbled, and made poor in spirit? when we trust in the name of the Lord.
God hath no delight in afflicting his children, he joyes and delights in the prosperity of his children; it is our sinfull nature that forceth him to afflict us, that he may weane us from the world, because we are prone to surfeit upon things here below, All that God doth is that we may trust in him, which we would never doe, unlesse he did afflict us and make us poore in spirit; but when we are afflicted and poore in spirit and have nothing at home, we will make out abroad, as people in necessity will doe: supply must be had, either at home, or from without; and when the soule is beaten and driven out of it selfe (which requires much ado) then we are fit for this blessed act, here spoken of, to trust in the name of the Lord. And the one is an evidence of the other. How shall wee know that we are sufficiently humbled, and made poore in spirit? when we trust in the name of the Lord.