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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12166	Beames of divine light breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they were learnedly opened, in XXI. sermons. The III. first being the fore-going sermons to that treatise called The bruised-reed, preached on the precedent words. By the late reverend and iudicious divine, Richard Sibs, D.D. Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camb: and sometimes preacher at Grayes Inne. Published according to the Doctor his owne appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect coppies.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22475; ESTC S117279	299,907	604

that it may be bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh For before wee come to heaven Christ must not onely be bone of our bone c. that is in his Incarnation but wee must be bone of his bone c. that is wee must have natures like Christ not onely flesh and blood for so a reprobate hath flesh and blood as Christ hath but wee must have his Spirit altering and changing our nature that instead of a proud disobedient rebellious nature now it must be a holy and humble and meeke nature together with humane frailty for that we carry about with us then the Spirit of life derived from Christ makes us bone of his bone For indeed in his humane nature being bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh hee made us bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh he became man that we might partake of the divine nature being partakers of the divine Spirit So that now the Spirit of life in Christ when we are knit to him is a Spirit of sanctification altering our natures and working in our hearts a disposition like Christs that wee judge as Christ judgeth and chuse as Christ chuseth and ayme at Gods glory as Christ did For there is the same mind in us that was in Christ Philip. 2. In our proportion growing still more and more to conformity with Christ till we be in heaven till Christ be all in all 1 Cor. 15. When he will change our nature to be holy as his owne Besides this liberty from sinne and death in this life there is a glorious liberty and freedome tha● we have by the Spirit of Christ when we are dead for then the Spirit of life that raised Christs dead body will raise our bodies and that Spirit of Christ that raiseth his body and raiseth our soules in this world from sinne to beleeve in him will raise our dead bodies The same vertue and power that workes in Christ workes in his members this is called The glorious libertie of the Sonnes of God Then wee shall be freed indeed not onely from the law of sinne but from sinne it selfe and not onely from the law of death but death it selfe and wee shall live forever with the Lord. Christ then shall be all in all by his Spirit Christ will never leave us till hee have brought us to that glorious freedome wee are freed already from sinne and death he hath set us in heavenly places together with himselfe now In faith we are there already but then wee shall be indeed Thus you see how we come to have the law of the Spirit of life in Christ to free us from the law of sinne and death and all the passages of it You see here that there is law against law The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ against the law of sinne and death I beseech you consider that God hath appointed law to countermand law the Spirit of Christ to overcome sinne in us not onely in justification but in sanctification oh let us therefore comfortably thinke there is a Law above this Law I have now cold dead base affections but if I have the Spirit of Christ he can quicken and enliven me hee will not onely pardon my sinne but by the Law of his Spirit direct guid and command me a contrary way to my lusts And this is an Art of spirituall prudence in heavenly things whensoever wee are beset with dangers to set ●reater then that against it The Devill is an Angell but we have a guard of Angels about us The Devill is a Serpent but we have a bra●en Serpent that cures all the stings of that Serpent We have Principalities and Powers against but we have greater Principalities and Po●ers for us The Law of life against the law of sinne and death We have a law of our lusts tyrannizing over us and enthralling us it is true but then there is a Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus to overcome and subdue that law of our lusts if so be that wee use the prerogatives wee have if we use faith and goe to God and Christ in whom are all the treasures of grace Hee is the treasury of the Church of his fulnesse we receive grace for grace Are we troubled with any corruptions goe to the Spirit of liberty in Christ and desire him to set us at liberty from the bondage and thraldome of our corruptions And remember what Christ hath done for us and where hee is now in heaven let us rai●e our thoughts that wee may see our selves in heaven already that wee may be ashamed to defile our bodies and soules with the base drudgery of sinne and Satan that are sanctified in part in this world and shall be glorified in heaven Certainely faith would raise our soules so we betray our selves when being once in the state of grace we are in●hralled basely to any sinne For sinne shall not have dominion over you because you are under grace saith the Apostle Being under grace if wee doe 〈◊〉 use our reasoning and use faith and exercise the grace we have given us wee cannot be in thrall to corruptions Wee shall have remainders to trouble us put not to 〈◊〉 and reigne and domineere For sinne 〈◊〉 beares ●way but when wee betray our selves and either beleeve not what Christ hath done for us or else exercise not our faith A Christian is never overtaken basely but when hee neglects his priviledges and prerogatives and doth not stirre up the grace of God in him Learne this then when we are troubled with any thing set Law against Law set the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ against all oppositions whatsoever and let the temptation ●●e where it will let it lie in justificati●● as when wee are tempted by Satan to despaire for sinnes for great sinnes oh but then consider the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ hath freed me from the law of sinne and of death Christ was made sinne to free me ●rom sinne Consider that Christ was God-man hee satisfied divine Justice the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sinne though they be as red as crimson Thus set Christ against our sinnes in justification when the guilt of them ●●oubles our soules And so likewise when wee are set on by base lusts set against them the power of Christ in sanctification What 〈◊〉 I now a member of Christ one that professeth my selfe to be an heire of heaven there is a Spirit of life in Christ my head there is a Law of the Spirit of life in Christ that is there is a commanding power in his Spirit and that Spirit of his is not onely in the head but in the members If I goe to him for grace I may have grace answerable to the grace that is in him grace that will strengthen me with his power be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes. 6.

sanctified judgement and a mighty power to raise the soule to cast it selfe so upon Gods mercy in Christ. So that besides the obtaining saluation by Christ there must be a grace to apply it and this faith doth Faith is said to doe that that Christ doth because faith layes hold upon Christ what faith doth Christ doth and what Christ doth faith doth therefore it hath the same actions applyed and given to it that Christ hath Faith is said to save us you know it is Christ that saves us but faith layes hold on Christ that saves us faith purgeth the heart and overcomes the world Christ by his Spirit doth all this but because faith wrought by the Spirit is such a grace as layes hold on the power of Christ it goes out of it selfe to Christ therefore what Christ doth faith is said to doe So then the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ not onely freed Christ himselfe by his Resurrection but likewise by the same power whereby hee raysed himselfe he rayseth our hearts to beleeve what hee hath done both in his state of humiliation and exaltation and makes all that Christ did ours The Spirit of life in Christ Iesus working faith in us and by faith other graces doth free us from the Law of sinne and death Christ doth it and faith doth it and grace which issues from faith doth it subordinately Christ doth it by way of merit and by his Spirit working faith in us to lay hold upon whatsoever Christ hath done or suffered as if we had done it our selves so it frees us from the law of sinne and death because it layes hold of the freedome wrought by Christ for us But besides and next to faith there is a Spirit of sanctification by which we are free from the commanding law of sinne and death But to cleare all this consider there is a freedome in this life and in the life to come from sinne and from death A freedome in this life in calling in justification in sanctification and in the life to come a freedome of glory There is a freedome in effectuall calling by the min●sterie of the Gospel the Gospel being preached unfolded faith is wrought whereby wee know what Christ hath done for us and wee see a better condition in Christ then we are in by nature seeing by the Spirit of God the cursed estate wee are in we are convinced of sinne in our selves and of the good that is in Christ and hereupon wee are called out of the thraldome wee are in by nature by the Spirit of Christ and the Word of God unfolding what our condition is for man by nature having selfe-love in him and that selfe-love being turned the right way he begins to thinke I doth the Word of God say I am a slave to sinne and damnation the Word of God can judge better then my selfe and then the Spirit of God sets it on with conviction that undoubtedly this is true And together with the cursed kingdome and slavery that I am under there is discovered a better state in Christ for the Gospel tells us what we are in Christ freed from hell and death and heires of heaven oh the happy estate of a Christian to be in Christ The Gospel with the Spirit discovering this a man is called out of the cursed estate he is in by nature to the fellow-ship of Christ by faith which is wrought in this calling so that now he comes to be a member of Christ by faith so that whatsoever Christ hath or is or hath done or suffered it is mine by reason of this union with him by faith which is the grace of union that knits us to Christ and the first grace of application So there is the first degree of liberty and freedome wrought by the Spirit of God together with the Gospel in effectuall calling The second is in justification that faith and beleefe in Christ that was wrought in effectuall calling it frees me from the guilt of my sinnes For when the Gospel in effectuall calling discovers that Christ is such a one and that there is such an estate in Christ and there is faith wrought in me then that faith layes hold upon the obedience of Christ to be mine For Christ in the Gospel offers his obedience to be mine as if I had done it in mine own person whatsoever Christ did or suffered is mine for he is made of God to be Wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption to be all in all the Gospell sets him forth to be so Now faith laying hold of Christ to be made of God all in all obedience righteousnesse c. whatsoever is needfull hereupon this faith justifies me hereupon I come to be free from the guilt of my sinnes because my sinnes were laid upon Christ Christs death was the death of a surety it was as if I had dyed my selfe and more firme thus I come to be free in justification for what my surety hath done I have done Againe there is a freedome in sanctification that is when a man beleeves that Christ is his and that his sufferings are his then the same Spirit that discovers this to be mine it workes a change and alteration in my nature and frees me from the dominion of sinne The obedience of Christ frees me from the condemnation of sinne and the Spirit of sanctification frees me from the dominion of sinne This is the freedome of sanctification which faith layes hold on Whosoever hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his Christ as a head derives to me the holy Spirit to sanctifie my nature and of his fulnesse we receive grace for grace so the Spirit of sanctification in Christ frees me from the dominion of sinne and death It is said here that by Christ we have spirituall liberty and freedome not from sinne and death but from the law of sinne and of death It is one thing to be freed from sinne and death and another thing to be freed from the law of them for wee are not indeed freed from sinne and death but from the law of sinne and death that is from the condemning power of sinne that though sinne be in us yet it doth not condemne us and though we die yet the sting is pulled out death is but a passage to a better life So I say in Justification wee are freed from the condemning power of sinne and in sanctification from the commanding power of sinne When we are knit once to Christ we have the obedience of Christ ours in justification and the holinesse of Christ is derived to us as from the head to the members in sanctification and so we are freed from the law of sin To understand this a little better the same Spirit that sanctified the naturall body the humane nature of Christ wherby he became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh the same Spirit doth sanctifie the mysticall body of Christ

unrepentant persons heart wheresoever he goes he is affraid of the plague affraid of sicknesse affraid of death affraid of every body he knowes he hath his heaven here hee hath not the sting of evills pulled out therefore hee is affraid hee shall goe from the terrors of conscience to the torments of hell his conscience speakes terrible things to him what a cursed state is this How can hee looke with comfort any way Jf he looke to Heaven God is ready to powre the violls of his wrath to execute his vengeance on him If hee looke to the Earth hee knowes not how soone hee shall be layd there or that the earth may swallow him up If he thinke of death it strikes terrour to him every thing is uncomfortable to an unrepentant sinner Let all this stirre us up to this duty of repentance it is the end why God sends his judgements First he warnes us by his Word and if we neglect that he sends judgements and they ●eaze on us that is a second warning and if lesser j●dgements will not warne us then he sends greater and all to make us repent if we repent we give the judgements their answer and he will either remove them or sanctifie them so much for that A word of the generality No man No man repented of his evill wayes wee see then That Generality is no plea. We must not follow a multitude to doe evill we must not follow the streame to doe as the world doth will any man reason thus Now there dye so many weekely of the plague it is no matter whether I goe I will goe now into any place without any respect to my company c Will he not reason on the contrary Therefore I will take heed J will carry preservatives about me and looke to my company Selfe-love will teach a man to reason so The Infection is great therefore I will take the more heed And will not spirituall wisedome teach us the more spreading and infectious sinne is the more heed to take When all flesh had corrupted their way then came the flood Generality of sinne makes way for sweeping judgements that takes all away Therefore we have more reason to tremble when the infection of sinne hath ceazed upon all when no man repents of his wickednesse a man should resolve surely I will come out of such company as we see Lot departed out of Sodome and David in his time was as a Pelican in the wildernesse I will rather goe to Heaven alone then goe to hell and be damned with a multitude Multitude is no plea to a wise man Shall we thinke it a meanes to increase danger in worldly things and shall we thinke it a plea in spirituall things It hath beene the commendation of Gods children that they have striven against the streame and been good in evill times Redeeme the time because the dayes are evill saith the Apostle A carnall Christian saith does as the rest doe but saith David Mine eyes gush out with rivers of waters because men keepe not thy Law Doe not feare that you shall passe unrespected if you be carefull to looke to your selves this way If there be but one Lot in Sodome one Noah and his family in the old world he shall be looked to as a Jewell among much drosse God will single him out as a man doth his Iewels when the rubbish is burnt God will have a speciall care to gather his Iewels When a man makes conscience of his waies in ill times and ill company God regards him the more for witnessing to his truth and standing for and owning his cause in ill times it shewes sincerity and strength of grace when a man is not tainted with the common corruptions No man repented What was the cause of all this that they were thus unrepentant and that generallly No man said What have I done The did not say in their hearts and tongues What have I done they were inconsiderate they did not examine and search and try their waies Here we see First that a man can returne upon himselfe he can search and try his owne waies and cite and arrest and arraigne himselfe What have I done This is a prerogative that God hath given to the understanding creature the reasonable soule it can reflect upon it selfe which is an act of judgement The bruit creatures looke forward to present objects they are carried to present things and cannot reflect But man hath judgement to know what hee hath done and spoken to sit upon his owne doings to judge of his owne actions God hath erected a tribunall in every man hee hath set up conscience for a register and witnesse and judge c. there are all the parts of judiciall proceeding in the soule of man This shewes the dignity of man and considering that God hath set up a throne and seate of judgement in the heart we should labour to exercise this judgement Secondly God having given man this excellent prerogative to cite himselfe and to judge his owne courses when man doth not this it is the cause of all mischiefe of all sinne and misery Alas the vile heart of man is prone to thinke it may be God hath decreed my damnation and he might make mee better if he would But why dost thou speake thus O wicked man the fault is in thy selfe because thou doest not what thou mightest doe hath not God set up a judgement seate in thy heart to deliberate of thine owne courses whether thou dost well or ill and thy owne conscience if thou bee not an Athiest and besotted tells thee thou dost ill and accuseth thee for it An ordinary swearer that by Athiesticall acquaintance and poysonfull breeding is accustomed to that sinne if he did consider what good shall I get by this by provoking God who hath threatned that I shall not goe guiltlesse and that I shall give an account for every idle word much more o● every idle oath the consideration of this would make him judge and condemne himselfe and repent and amend his waies The exercising of this judgement it makes a mans life lightsome he knowes who he is and whether he goes it makes him able to answer for what hee doth at the judgement seate of God it makes him doe what he doth in cofidence it perfects the soule every way Againe whatsoever we doe without this consideration it is not put upon our account for comfort when we doe things upon judgement it is with examination whether it be according to the rule or no. Our service of God is especially in our affections when wee joy and feare and delight aright Now how can a man doe this without consideration For the affections wheresoever they are ordinate and good they are raised up by judgement they are never good but when they are regular and according to judgement when judgement raiseth up the affections and we see cause why we should delight in God and love him and feare him