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Christs exaltation purchased by humiliation Wherein you may see mercy and misery meet together. Very useful I. For instructing the ignorant. II. For comforting the weak. III. For confirming the strong. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher of Gray's-Inn, London. Published by T.G. and P.N.Christs exaltation purchast by humiliation Wherein you may see mercy and misery meete together. Very vsefull I. For instructing the ignorant. II. For comforting the weake. III. For confirming the strong. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Published by T.G. and P.N.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes, 1639
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Upon knowing and acknowledging, issues all other obedience in our life to Christ, those that thus acknowledge Christ, they must be directed by his will, and not their own, as a servant as far as he is a servant, and a wife so far as she is a wife, they have no will of their own; so he that lives to Christ, and acknowledgeth him to be a Lord, he must have no will of his own, but he must live according to the will of Christ, as you have it excellently set ⟨p. 90⟩down, 1 Pet. 4. Christ suffered for us in the flesh, let us arm our selves therefore with the same mind: for he that suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin that he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God: It is a comment upon this place, Christ dyed and rose and revived, that he might be Lord of the quick and of the dead, that is, that we might live according to his will, and not after our own, do you think our Saviour Christ would so far deny himself, to leave heaven, to take upon him our base nature, and be so far abased in it, to ⟨p. 91⟩let us live as we list? oh no, we must live the rest of our days, not according to the lusts of men, or our own lusts, but according to the will of God; and therefore as the Apostle admonisheth, Rom. 12. we must search what is the acceptable will of God in all things: what is the end of our hearing Sermons, of our reading, and all the pains we take in the means of Salvation? not only to know what God will do to us, but what he will have of us, he will have the directing of our lives, and therefore if we will live to Christ, we must labour to know his good pleasure to ⟨p. 92⟩us, what he means to do for us, and so his good pleasure with us, what he will have us do again by way of thankfulness, Christ squared his life immediately according to his fathers will (It is written, in the volume of thy book that I should do thy will oh God) so all that are Christs must have the same Spirit, to direct all their lives according to his will; now the most grand things of his will (for his will is in the Scriptures) are that we repent, he commands all to repent: his will is that we believe in him, his will is our sanctification, as it is