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Volume Two contains Sibbes’ writings which explore the relationship between Christ and the church, beginning with the life of Christ and the Holy Spirit’s ongoing role in the ministry of the Church. The church, Sibbes shows, rests on God’s faithfulness and Christ’s work, but is also obligated to fulfill Christ’s commission. He writes extensively on the metaphor of the church as Christ’s bride. ...

But what is this white and ruddy? what is beauty? 1. To the making of beauty there is required a sound, healthy constitution, so as the particulars have a due proportion. There must be a harmony of the parts, one suiting with one another; for comeliness stands in oneness, when many things, as it were, are one. Uncomeliness is in diversity, when diverse things are jumbled together that belong to many heads; as we say it is uncomely to have an old man’s head on a young man’s shoulders. But when all
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