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The Christians end. Or, The sweet sovereignty of Christ, over his members in life…The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life…
The Christians end. Or, The sweet sovereignty of Christ, over his members in life and death Wherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and encouragements, to live and die to Jesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, by that learned and faithful minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honourable society.The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life and death VVherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and incouragements, to live and die to Iesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honorable society of Grayes Inne, by that learned and faithfull minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honorable societie.
London: printed by Thomas Harper and Eliot's Court Press for Lawrence Chapman, 1639
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.
First, from their relations. Who art thou that judgest another mans servant?
Secondly, from their aims. They do it both out of religious respects. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, he that eateth not, eateth not to the Lord; he that regardeth not a day, regardeth it not to the Lord; he that doth it, doth it to the Lord. And therefore if both have a Religious respect, censure may be forborne.
Secondly, from their aimes. They doe it both out of religious respects. Hee that eateth, eateth to the Lord, he that eateth not, eateth not to the Lord; hee that regardeth not a day, regardeth it not to the Lord; he that doth it, doth it to the Lord. And therfore if both have a Religious respect, censure may be forborn.
There is that force in a good aim, that in some actions of an indifferent nature, they may be done, or not be done, & God may bear with both, though he allow not of either's carelessness in searching out the truth; Till the •ime of growth, God beareth with them, so their aims be gracious, their fault being simple ignorance, not malicious pertinacy. When S. Paul saw the hypocritical aims of the Galatians, in things of indifferent natures, he would not yield a whit to them. But the defect of the Romans was in their knowledge, not in their wills: they did it with respect to ⟨p. 4⟩the Lord. And therefore as in Acts 13. 18. God is said [Greek or Hebrew] (an excellent word) to bear with their manners in the Wilderness, dispensing with many things, as putting away of wives, &c. not that he liked that course, but he would set up a meek kind of government, not taking advantage to cast them off. So he dealt with the Romans. Now shall God be merciful, and indulgent, and man severe?