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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.
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?
By wofull experiment wee finde that §3which hath brought all the misery,1 that the world ever felt, hath beene self-will. Men will be turned upside down, rather than their wils shalbe crossed; but doth not this provoke God? Shall a piece of earth strive against him? and will not hee break it to powder? Surely God will set us as a mark to shoot at, and will triumph and get himselfe victory and glory over those creatures, that will have their wils. Hell is fit for such, God will be sure to have his will of them: when the creature shall set his wil against Gods wil; when an earthen pot shall set it self against a mace of brasse; which will have the worst, think you?
- 1Self-will breeds our misery.
If we live to our selves, we lie open to §4Satan. But on the contrary part a man that liveth to God, is fit for any gracious ⟨p. 32⟩