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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.
So our Saviour Christ committed his cause to him that was able to judge righteously. Every true Christian hath the Spirit of Christ; he ⟨p. 144⟩when he was reviled, retorted not again: but committed the cause to him that was able to judge righteously. Shall I be able to commit my soul to God in the hour of death; and shall I not in case of revenge be able to commit my case to God, when I have done that that peaceably I may do? I may suspect that I am but yet an hypocrite, I have not true trust in God.
So our Saviour Christ committed his cause to him that was able to judge righteously. Every true Christian hath the Spirit of Christ; hee ⟨p. 144⟩when hee was reviled, retorted not againe: but committed the cause to him that was able to judge righteously. Shall I be able to commit my soule to God in the houre of death; and shall I not in case of revenge be able to commit my case to God, when I have done that that peaceably I may doe? I may suspect that I am but yet an hypocrite, I have not true trust in God.
3Again, he that hath learned truly to trust God for the grand main matters, he will trust him likewise with his posterity, with his children, without using indirect means to make them rich, as if they could not be blessed unless they have such a portion put into their hand when we dye,2 as […] God had not stock enough for them, for the Earth is th• Lords and the fullness thereof. And he is the God of the faithful and of their seed. Is he so? Then let us labour to leave our children in covenant, leave them in a gracious frame and state of soul, that they may be Gods children, and then we leave them rich: for we leave them God all-sufficient to be their portion. Therefore those that pretend, I do this but for my posterity and children, when they are unjust and unconscionable in their getting: they make this defence for their unbelief: if they had true faith, as they trust God with their souls (as they pretend at least) so they would with their children and posterity.