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Evangelical sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankful commemorations for Gods mercy in our great…Evangelicall sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankfull commemorations for Gods mercy in our great…
Evangelical sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankful commemorations for Gods mercy in our great deliverance from the papists powder-plot. 2. The successful seeker. 3. Faith triumphant. 4. Special preparations to fit us for our latter end in four funeral sermons. 5. The faithful covenanter. 6. The demand of a good conscience. 7. The sword of the wicked. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibbs. Doctor in Divinity, Mr. of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher to the honourable society of Gray's-Inn. The third tome. Published and perused by D. Sibbs own appointment, subscribed with his hand to prevent imperfect copies after his decease.Evangelicall sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankfull commemorations for Gods mercy in our great deliverance from the papists powder-plot. 2. The successefull seeker. 3. Faith triumphant. 4. Speciall preparations to fit us for our latter end in foure funerall sermons. 5. The faithfull covenanter. 6. The demand of a good conscience. 7. The sword of the wicked. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibbs. Doctor in Divinity, Mr. of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher to the honourable society of Grayes-Inne. The third tome. Published and perused by D. Sibbs owne appointment, subscribed with his hand to prevent imperfect copies after his decease.
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What do we hear in the sacrament? do we come only to receive his love to us? No, we make a covenant with God in the Sacrament, that he shall be our God, and we promise by his grace to lead new lives hence forth, we have made a Covenant with God at first in Baptism, now we renew it in taking the Sacrament, and it is fit, for if he renew his covenant oft to us in love to be ours, we should renew ours oft with him, to take him to be our God. Seven times in Gen. he renewed his covenant to Abraham, because he would have him trust what he said; then we should seven times, that is oft, come to the Sacrament, and renew our Covenant with him, to take him for our God: and remember what ti• to sin after the receiving the sacrament •. Sins against conscience break off a covenant renewed, sin hath an aggravation now, you that mean to receive, if you sin willingly after, 'twere better you had not received: what makes adultery worse than fornication? saith Mal: Twas the wife of thy covenant: adultery breaks the covenant of marriage, it is worse then fornication where there is not a covenant. So you have made á covenant ⟨p. 163⟩with God in your Baptism, and now you come to renew it; if you sin now, it is an aggravation of the sin, it is adultery, it is disloyalty against God.
What doe we heare in the sacrament? doe we come only to receive his love to us? No, we make a covenant with God in the Sacrament, that hee shall be our God, and wee promise by his grace to lead new lives hence forth, wee have made a Covenant with God at first in Baptism, now we renew it in taking the Sacrament, and it is fit, for if he renew his covenant oft to us in love to be ours, we should renew ours oft with him, to take him to be our God. Seaven times in Gen. he renewed his covenant to Abraham, because hee would have him trust what hee said; then we should seven times, that is oft, come to the Sacrament, and renew our Covenant with him, to take him for our God: and remember what ti• to sin after the receiving the sacramē •. Sins against conscience break off a covenant renewed, sin hath an aggravation now, you that mean to receive, if you sin willingly after, 'twere better you had not received: what makes adultery worse thē fornication? saith Mal: Twas the wife of thy covenant: adultery breaks the covenāt of marriage, it is worse then fornication where there is not a covenant. So you have made á covenant