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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.
London: printed by Thomas for N. Bourne, 1640
THE DEMAND OF A good Conscience.THE DEMANDE OF A good Conscience.
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.
The dependence of these words upon the former is this. The blessed Apostle had spoken before of those that were before the flood, and of Noah's saving in the Ark: whereupon he mentions Baptism. The like figure whereunto is Baptism which also saveth us. Christ was Yesterday, to day, and the same for ever. He was the same unto them before his Incarnation; and the same to them that lived in ⟨p. 170⟩his time, and to us that shall be for ever. All were saved by Christ, and all had several sacrifices that were types of Christ. As there were two Cities of the world, from the beginning of the world, figured out in Cain and Abel the beginners of both, so God hath carried himself differently to the Citizens of both: he always had a care to save his Noah's in the middest of destruction, he had an Ark alway for his Noah's. God knoweth how to deliver his, saith the Apostle Peter. It is a work that he hath practised a long time since the beginning of the world: and for the other that are not his, that are of Cain's posterity, God carries himself in a contrary way to them, he destroys them. But to come to the words. The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth now save us, &c. The saving of Noah in the Ark was a correspondent, answerable type to Baptism: for as Baptism figures Christ, so did the saving of Noah in the Ark: they are correspondent in many things.
THe dependance of these words upon the former is this. The blessed Apostle had spoken before of those that were before the flood, and of Noahs saving in the Arke: whereupon he mentions Baptisme. The like figure whereunto is Baptisme which also saveth vs. Christ was Yesterday, to day, and the same for euer. Hee was the same unto them before his Incarnation; and the same to them that lived in ⟨p. 170⟩his time, and to us that shall be for ever. All were saved by Christ, and all had severall sacrifices that were types of Christ. As there were two Citties of the world, from the beginning of the world, figured out in Caine and Abell the beginners of both, so God hath carried himselfe differently to the Citizens of both: he always had a care to save his Noah's in the middest of destruction, he had an Arke alway for his Noah's. God knoweth how to deliuer his, sayth the Apostle Peter. It is a worke that he hath practised a long time since the beginning of the world: and for the other that are not his, that are of Caines posterity, God carries himselfe in a contrary way to them, he destroyes them. But to come to the words. The like figure whereunto even Baptisme doth now save vs, &c. The saving of Noah in the Arke was a correspondent, answerable type to Baptisme: for as Baptisme figures Christ, so did the saving of Noah in the Arke: they are correspondent in many things.