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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
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.
It is a point of wondrous comfort likewise to us, in all afflictions whatsoever, especially such, as concern the state of the Church, we are now in ill times, if we look about us, however God continues better to us then we deserve, we are as the three young men in the fiery furnace, untouched, when all is in a combustion round about us, where is Christs ruling now? ⟨p. 173⟩his poor Church is thus used, and trampled upon in France, in the Palatinate, in Bohemia, and the Princes of Germany.
It is a point of wondrous comfort likewise to us, in all afflictions whatsoever, especially such, as concerne the state of the Church, we are now in ill times, if wee looke about us, however God continues better to us then we deserve, wee are as the three young men in the fiery furnace, untouched, when all is in a combustion round about us, where is Christs ruling now? ⟨p. 173⟩his poore Church is thus used, and trampled upon in France, in the Palatinate, in Bohemia, and the Princes of Germany.
Beloved, it is our faults, perhaps we waken not Christ, as the Disciples, they awaked Christ, when there was a mighty storm, and moved him to rebuke the winds, and the waves, and there followed a calm, so should we. Christ loves to be awaked by our prayers, and if the Church would join in forces, one Church with another, altogether they might work wonders, let us offer a holy violence to Christ by prayer, and the use of holy means; he is ⟨p. 174⟩Lord still of the Church, and take things at the worst as they are, he is but carrying things to his own ends. Beloved, if we consider things aright, it can hardly be otherwise with the Church then it is, if we consider the former security, and dullness, and want of prizing the great things of Christ, the ministry of the word, and the Sacraments, we live under the Gospel, in such deadness and such sins, as a Turk would scarce commit, we are no more affected with it, then a Jew, or a Turk, that hath not the means, will Christ endure this that we should come to be