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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.
And as it is an inference raised from the former; So we may consider it, as a cause, why we must live to the Lord, and dye to the Lord: for whether we live, or dye, we are the Lords.
And as it is an inference raised from the former; So wee may consider it, as a cause, why we must live to the Lord, and dye to the Lord: for whether we live, or dye, we are the Lords.
The words are a certain bottom, and foundation for a christians comfort in the uncertainty of his condition here, being between life, & death. Sure he is of death, as of life: but when to dye, and how long to live, he is uncertain. But be that as it will be, this is certain, living and dying, he is the Lords.
The words are a certaine bottome, and foundation for a christians comfort in the uncertainty of his condition here, being between life, & death. Sure he is of death, as of life: but when to dye, and how long to live, he is uncertaine. But be that as it will be, this is certaine, living and dying, he is the Lords.
So that take the whole condition of a christian, take him in all estates of life or death, (which two divide the whole condition of man, for all men may be ranked into these two orders of quick and dead.1) I say consider a christian in either of them, Christ is Lord of both; take him in a condition of life, while he liveth, ⟨p. 55⟩he is the Lords. When he giveth up his breath, he is the Lords. So that come of him what will, in this uncertain condition, this is certain, and sure, he is the Lords.