Sibbes, Light from Heaven, 1638

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 somerimes Preacher at GRAYES INNE. Published according to the Authors owne appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect Coppies. 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.
 
Original full leather over boards, rebacked, with red title label (with gold text and details) on spine.  Some mild scuffs. Corners bumped and chipped. Previous owner’s name on front blank. Penciled numbers in two columns on rfep. A 5 and 6 slightly trimmed at fore-edges (margins still amble). Rare marginal smudges, otherwise, clean, bright, and tight throughout.
 
Richard Sibs (Sibbes), 1577 – 165 was born in Suffolk, and was ordained as a minister in Norwich in 1608. “His preaching awakened Cambridge from the spiritual indifference into which it had fallen after the death of (William) Perkins. … John Cotton and Hugh Peters were converted under Sibbe’s preaching. … He wrote at least thirteen introductions to the writings of his Puritan colleagues. … The historian Daniel Neal described Sibbes as a celebrated preacher, an educated divine, and a charitable and humble man who repeatedly underestimated his gifts. … David Masson, biographer of John Milton, wrote, ‘No writings in practical theology seem to have been so much read in the mid-seventeenth century among the pious English middle classes as those of Sibbes.’ (Beeke, pg 534 etc)
 
Ffep, blank, title, (14), title, 1-199, title, 201-297, title, 3-157, blank, (14) rfep.
7 5/8 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches.