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lord_n	earl_n	honourable_a	right_n	13,405	5	6.9102	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12186	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.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1638 (1638)	STC 22498; ESTC S117381	274,966	518

LIGHT FROM HEAVEN Discovering The FOUNTAINE OPENED The ANGELS ACCLAMATIONS The CHURCHES RICHES The 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 AMOS 3.7 Surely the Lord God will doe nothing but he revealeth his secrets to his servants the Prophets LONDON Printed by E. Purslow for N. Bourne at the Royall Exchange and R. Harford at the gilt Bible in Queenes head Alley in Pater-Noster-Row 1638. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT Earle of WARWICK And to the Right Honourable the Lady SVS ANNA Countesse of WARWICKE His pious CONSORT Right Honourable THERE are two things common to man whose nature is capable of Honour one is an appetite of Honour the other a mistaking himselfe about the matter or way of Honour Ambition stirres up the one and Ignorance causeth the other that swels this poysons the heart of man The first Humour did so farre transport some Ancients that they placed very Felicitie in Honour and made strange and unnaturall Adventures for the same The second as an Evill made them to make that to be Honour which is not and denie that to be Honour which is Honour indeed It is no Honour to be wicked nor yet a way to Honour with God or good men and yet some men doe glory in their shame accounting Besenesse it selfe to be their Honour It is the highest Honour and indeed nothing so truly ennobleth to be truly gracious and godly and yet with multitudes of men Religion and Godlinesse are thought staines and blemishes of Honour ignobling Greatnesse it selfe which they shun as the greatest shame The Scriptures make Godlinesse the formall and intrinsecall Cause and Root of Honour Nay it is and was the opinion of the most moderate Philosophers That Vertue is the proper Basis of Honour and that it doth belong to Vertue as a Debt and so much as vertuous so much honourable and though it did not make yet it did dresse a Morall happinesse The Honour of being vertuous is great to all most unto Personages whose bloud runnes Noble and Places are eminent the World eyeth such most and are willing to see if they will shine and readie to commend if they will be forward When great ones are but in the common way of honouring God which is meerely formall and verball this is pleasing and many times winning name and fame unto themselves But when they are found upon the speciall way of honouring God which is radicall and vitall the heart being inwardly affected with the love and purpose and the life full of the courses and discourses of Godlinesse this makes Nobilitie it selfe glorious and eminently to shine And certaine it is that such shall have from God the Honour of secret Acceptation speciall Protection externall Publication and of eternall Glorification they being all Heires under Blessing This honour in all eminency I wish unto your Honours by how much the more God hath already advanced and enlarged your Names and Families not onely in many outward but also in many choise and spirituall respects For your further helpe herein I make my selfe bold to present you with certaine Sermons heretofore preached by D. Sibbs a man whose pi●ty and parts made him Honourable living and dead For mee to commend the Author unto your Honours were to make the World to judge him either a stranger unto you or a man that had not ingratiated himselfe with you whilest hee lived neere unto you I well knew that he had an Honourable opinion of you both and of yours and that maketh me not blush to passe these his owne Labours under your Noble Patron●ges I know his wo●kes doe and will sufficiently prayse him and You that knew and loved him so well shall in vouchsafing to read over these ensuing Sermons finde his Spirit in them and in a manner heare him although dead yet speaking unto you Looke upon the Worke with acceptance for the Fathers sake and let the World know that he was a man so deservedly respected of you that his learned Labours shall profit you and you by them may be quickned in all the passages of your life to Honour that God who hath so much Honoured you which is the heartie desire of Your Honours to be commanded IOHN SEDEWICK TO THE READER THe highest Points of Christian Religion and such as are most above the Reach of Humane Wisedome are those that lye below in the foundation and therefore are they called the Mysteries of the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 13.11 and the deepe things of God 1 Cor. 2.10 And the knowledge of these things is tearmed an ascending into Heaven Iohn 3.13 a knowledge of such things as eye hath not seene nor eare heard nor would ever have entred into the heart of man had they not beene revealed to us by him that came downe from Heaven even the sonne of man that is in Heaven That blessed Apostle S. Paul that was rapt up into the third Heaven did yet chiefely desire to studie and teach these Principles of the Doctrine of Christ I determined not to know any thing among you save Iesus Christ and him crucified 1 Cor. 2.2 Yea and after all his studie and teaching was not ashamed to confesse of himselfe that he was not yet perfect in the knowledge of Christ nor had attained so much as might be attained but was still therefore looking upward and pressing forward to that which was before Phil. 3.12 13. And indeed what David acknowledged concerning his searching the Scriptures in generall that though he had proceeded further in the discoverie of Divine Truths then those that went before him Psal. 119.99 I have more understanding then all my Teachers for thy Testimonies are my meditation yet he was still to seeke of that which might be knowne Vers. 96. I have seene an end of all perfection but thy Commandement is exceeding broad Even as those great Discoverers of the New-found Lands in America at their returne were wont to confesse that there was still a Plus-ultra more might be descryed then was yet seene that may we say concerning those glorious things revealed unto us in the Gospel concerning Christ Proceed we as farre as we can in the studie of them that we know will be nothing to that which is still to be learned for the Riches of Christ herein discovered are indeed unsearchable It is disparagement therefore at all either to those that are the chiefe Masters of the Assemblies to teach or those that are of the highest Forme in Christs Schoole to learne yea and that againe and againe the first Principles of the Oracles of God Sure I am how-ever others puffed up with an opinion of their owne worth may be otherwise minded the Reverend and learned Author of these ensuing Tr●atises was of this judgement who though he were