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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.
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 h•nd 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 ⟨p. 148⟩Star to be guided in his course by Gods direction: he that doth not this, knows not what it is to trust in God.
Thus you see in all the passages of our lives we must learne to trust God, and to make use of God; for God is so abundant, that hee is never drawne dry; he joyes 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 owne soules, but labour to trust God for all things. Let it be our daily practise in the use of meanes, look to the course that he prescribes us, and then looke up to him for strength, and blessing, and successe. This ought to be the life of a Christian; Oculus ad Coelum, as they say of the Governour of a Ship, he hath his h•nd 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 sterne, he must be doing that that God prescribes him: and hee must have his eye to the ⟨p. 148⟩Starre to be guided in his course by Gods direction: he that doth not this, knowes not what it is to trust in God.