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Two sermons: preached by that faithful and reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes…Two sermons: preached by that faithfull and reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes…
Two sermons: preached by that faithful and reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to the honourable society of Gray's Inn; and master of Katherine Hall in CambridgeTwo sermons: preached by that faithfull and reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to the honorable society of Grayes Inne; and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge
London: printed by T. Cotes for Andr. Kembe, 1639
THE SPOUSE, Her earnest desire after Christ.THE SPOVSE, Her earnest desire after Christ.
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.
THE SPOUSE, Her earnest desire after Christ.
THE SPOVSE, Her earnest desire after Christ.
THE HOLY Ghost is pleased here to condescend to 1our infirmities, and that we might help our selves, in our spiritual ⟨p. 2⟩estate, by our bodily; he speaketh here of heavenly things after an earthly manner, and in a comfortable mystery. As in other places the Holy Ghost sets out the joys of Heaven by a sweet Ban quet: so here he sets out the union that we have with Christ, by the union of the Husband with the wife. And that we might the better understand what this union is, he condescends to our weak capacities, that we might see that in a glass of resemblance which we (through our corruptions) cannot discern in the own nature. This book therefore is nothing else but a shadowed demonstration and setting