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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.
For we are not our own, We are bought with a price, as the Apostle saith.
For we are not our own, Wee are bought with a price, as the Apostle saith.
Again, Our selves are our greatest enemies. •here is no such flatterer, as the bosom flatterer. That enemy, self, that we have in our bosoms betrayeth us to Satan; ⟨p. 31⟩else all the Devils in hell could not hurt us. Self is our own enemy, and Gods enemy. Nay, enemy is too easy, too good a word; the best thing in us, is enmity it self against God.
Again, Our selves are our greatest enemies. •here is no such flatterer, as the bosome flatterer. That enemy, selfe, that we have in our bosomes betrayeth us to Satan; ⟨p. 31⟩else all the Devils in hell could not hurt us. Self is our own enemy, and Gods enemy. Nay, enemy is too easie, too good a word; the best thing in us, is enmity it self against God.
By woeful experiment we find that §3which hath brought all the misery,1 that the world ever felt, hath been self-will. Men will be turned upside down, rather than their wills shall be crossed; but doth not this provoke God? Shall a piece of earth strive against him? and will not he break it to powder? Surely God will set us as a mark to shoot at, and will triumph and get himself victory and glory over those creatures, that will have their wills. Hell is fit for such, God will be sure to have his will of them: when the creature shall set his will against Gods will; when an earthen pot shall set it self against a mace of brass; which will have the worst, think you?