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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.
Now Christ is said in Scripture, to be Lord oftener then God,1 because God in the second person hath appeared in our Nature, overcome all our enemies, hath triumphed, and is now in heaven in our Nature. and because Lord is a word of authority and sovereignty. And God hath made him governor of quick and dead.
Now Christ is said in Scripture, to bee Lord oftener then God,1 because God in the second person hath appeared in our Nature, overcome all our enemies, hath triumphed, and is now in heaven in our Nature. and because Lord is a word of authority and soveraignty. And God hath made him governour of quicke and dead.
- 1Christ our Lord as the second person.
He is a Lord in regard of God the father, by Donation, 1God hath given the elect to him before all worlds.
- 1Lord by donation.