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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.
Well,6 the last thing that we have any use of trusting God withal is, when we are dying, to trust our souls, to commit them to God, and yield them up to him, our depositum, to lay it with him. He that hath inured himself to trust God all his life, and to live by faith, he will be able at length with some comfort to dye by faith. He that hath trusted God all his life, with all things that God hath trusted him; he can easily trust God with his soul; and he that hath not inured himself to trust God in this life, undoubtedly he will never trust God with his soul when he dies, it is but a forced trust.
Well,6 the last thing that wee have any use of trusting God withall is, when we are dying, to trust our soules, to commit them to God, and yeeld them up to him, our depositum, to lay it with him. He that hath inured himselfe to trust God all his life, and to live by faith, he will be able at length with some comfort to dye by faith. Hee that hath trusted God all his life, with all things that God hath trusted him; he can easily trust God with his soule; and he that hath not inured himselfe to trust God in this life, undoubtedly he will never trust God with his soule when he dies, it is but a forced trust.
- 6With our souls at the hour of death.With our souls at the houre of death.
Thus you see in all the passages of our lives we must learn to trust God, and to make use of God; for God is so abundant, that he is never drawn dry; he joys when he is made use of, it is an honour to him. Let us try our selves, by that I have said, whether we truly trust God or no; let us not deceive our own souls, but labour to trust God for all things. Let it be our daily practise in the use of means, look to the course that he prescribes us, and then look up to him for strength, and blessing, and success. This ought to be the life of a Christian; Oculus ad Coelum, as they say of the Governor of a Ship, he hath his hnd to the Sterne, and his eye to the Pole-star, to be directed by that: so the life of a Christian, he must have his hand to the stern, he must be doing that that God prescribes him: and he must have his eye to the