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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.
The like subjection must be showed in all conditions whatsoever.1 If God will have me to honour him in a mean calling, I am not mine own, I am his, ⟨p. 78⟩my life, and all my condition of life, are only to him. My calling, my estate, it may be is low, that my pride may be humbled. But God hath set me in my calling, he will have me to honour him in it. In the meanest calling, a man shall have enough to give an account of, and therefore there is no reason to be ashamed of our calling. I am the Lords, in my life, in all the passages of it, in my calling, in all the troubles of it, I am to look for support, and protection, and provision, and direction from God. I am here by his appointment. And therefore he that hath set me in this place, will provide for me, protect me, guide me by his Spirit, what to do in my place. And so it is a ground of contentation in all conditions.
The like subjection must bee shewed in all conditions whatsoever.1 If God will have mee to honour him in a meane calling, I am not mine owne, I am his, ⟨p. 78⟩my life, and all my condition of life, are onely to him. My calling, my estate, it may bee is low, that my pride may bee humbled. But God hath set mee in my calling, he will have mee to honour him in it. In the meanest calling, a man shall have enough to give an account of, and therfore there is no reason to be ashamed of our calling. I am the Lords, in my life, in all the passages of it, in my calling, in all the troubles of it, I am to looke for support, and protection, and provision, and direction from God. I am here by his appointment. And therefore he that hath set me in this place, will provide for me, protect me, guide mee by his Spirit, what to doe in my place. And so it is a ground of contentation in all conditions.
- 1We must be subject to God in all conditions.We must bee subject to God in all conditions.