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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 a ground of special comfort;1 so it is a ground of direction. Whether we live, or die, we are the Lords▪ Therefore it may be a foundation of living to the Lord. If we be the Lords, surely we ought to live to him. I• we be his, all our endeavours, whatsoever is ours, are his. Fructus and Fundus, go together, the fruit and the soil, and therefore if we be the Lords in life & death, we must not live to our selves, as our own: but give our selves to him, & not to anything else: we are not our own, nor mans, but the Lords. And therefore we ought not to yield up our selves to our self-wills, self-wit, self-love, to be at or own disposing▪ and to live as we list. We are redeemed from our selves, ⟨p. 72⟩yea from all our vain conversations.
And as it is a ground of speciall comfort;1 so it is a ground of direction. Whether we live, or die, we are the Lords▪ Therfore it may bee a foundation of living to the Lord. If we be the Lords, surely we ought to live to him. I• we be his, all our endeavours, whatsoever is ours, are his. Fructus and Fundus, goe together, the fruit and the soile, and therefore if we be the Lords in life & death, we must not live to our selvs, as our own: but give our selvs to him, & not to anything else: we are not our owne, nor mans, but the Lords. And therefore wee ought not to yield up our selves to our selfe-wils, selfe-wit, self-love, to be at or owne disposing▪ and to live as we list. We are redeemed from our selves, ⟨p. 72⟩yea from all our vaine conversations.
- 1Of direction to give our selves to Christ.