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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.
And then again, people rest in them, because 1somewhat is done by it to daub conscience, that would c•mour if they should do nothing, if they were direct Atheists, therefore say they, we will hear the word, and perform outward things; and being loath to search into the bottom of their conscience rest in outward things, and satisfy conscience by it: these and the like reasons there are:
And then againe, people rest in them, because 1somewhat is done by it to dawbe conscience, that would c•mour if they should do nothing, if they were direct Atheists, therefore say they, we will heare the word, and performe outward things; and being loath to search into the bottome of their conscience rest in outward things, and satisfie conscience by it: these and the like reasons there are:
- 12. They daub Conscience.2. They dawbe Conscience.
Let us take notice of it, and take heed of the 1corruption of nature in it: Let us know that God regards not the outward, without the inward, nay he abhors it, he abhors his own worship that he hath appointed himself, if the inward be not there: much more devises, and ceremonies of mens own devising. Popery is but an out-side of Religion, they labour to put off God with the work done: they have an opinion fit to corrupt nature: that is, that the Sacrament administered confers grace, without any disposing of the party. One of the Chief ⟨p. 175⟩of them, a great Scholar, he will have the water it self to be elevated above its own nature to confer grace, as if grace had any communion with a dead element. And thus they speak, to make people dote too much upon outward things. I will not stand to confute this opinion: this very text showeth, that the outward part of Baptism, without the inward, is nothing, not the washing of the body, but the answer of a good Conscience, saith S. Peter.