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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.
For there must be an application of the soul to God:1 we must lay our souls upon God;2 though he be a Rock, yet we must lay our souls upon him, and though he be a foundation, yet we must build upon him and his truth revealed. There is an adequate comfort in God and in the Scriptures, and superabundant too, to all our necessities whatsoever, it transcends them all, there is more in the spring then we want ourselves: yet notwithstanding there must be grace in the soul, to repair to God, there must be an hand, an empty beggars hand (such as faith is) to reach that help that God yields; there must be a wing to fly to our Tower; the wing of the soul is this trust and faith; and when these two meet, faith or trust, and GOD, What a sweet meeting is there? For emptiness, and fullness, poverty, and riches, weakness and strength, •o meet together, these will grasp sweetly: for the excellency, and all sufficiency of the one, and the necessity of the other meeting together, breeds a sweet correspondency. We must trust therefore in the Name of the LORD; that is the way to improve whatsoever is in God, for our good.
For there must be an application of the soule to God:1 we must lay our soules upon God;2 though hee be a Rock, yet wee must lay our soules upon him, and though he be a foundation, yet we must build upon him and his truth revealed. There is an adaequate comfort in God and in the Scriptures, and superabundant too, to all our necessities whatsoever, it transcends them all, there is more in the spring then we want ourselves: yet notwithstanding there must bee grace in the soule, to repaire to God, there must be an hand, an empty beggers hand (such as faith is) to reach that helpe that God yeeldes; there must bee a wing to flye to our Tower; the wing of the soule is this trust and faith; and when these two meet, faith or trust, and GOD, What a sweet meeting is there? For emptinesse, and fulnesse, poverty, and riches, weaknesse and strength, •o meet together, these will graspe sweetly: for the excellency, and al sufficiency of the one, and the necessity of the other meeting together, breeds a sweet correspondency. Wee must trust therefore in the Name of the LORD; that is the way to improve whatsoever is in God, for our good.