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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.
Let us labour therefore in all our services of God, to bring especially the spiritual part: The Prophet Hosea finds fault with Ephraim, They loved to tread out the Corn, but not to wear the Yoke. Now the Ox that wears no yoke, it is no trouble to tread out the Corn, they fed upon the corn as they trod it, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeth out the Corn: So Christians are like Ephraim, they are content to take the easy part of Religion: but to take the yoke, that which is hard, that they love not: now we must labour tob ear the yoke of Religion: What the heart doth is done in Religion, what the heart doth not, is not done, and there is a kind of Divinity, a Divine power in all the parts of Gods worship that is requisite, besides the bringing of the outward man: As in hearing, there is required a divine power to make a man hear as he ought to do, to bow the neck of the inward man of the soul: & so to receive the Sacrament, more is required then the outward man. ⟨p. 176⟩There is a form and power in all the parts of Religion. Let us not rest in the form, but labour for the power: there is a power in hearing of the Word, to transform us into the obedience of it, and a power in the Sacrament to renew our Covenants with God for a new life, and to cast our selves altogether upon Gods Mercy in Jesus Christ (besides the outward elements, to have further Communion with Christ.
Let us labour therefore in all our services of God, to bring especially the spirituall part: The Prophet Hosea findes fault with Ephraim, They loved to tread out the Corne, but not to weare the Yoake. Now the Oxe that weares no yoake, it is no trouble to tread out the Corne, they fed upon the corne as they trod it, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the Corne: So Christians are like Ephraim, they are content to take the easie part of Religion: but to take the yoake, that which is hard, that they love not: now wee must labour tob eare the yoake of Religion: What the heart doth is done in Religion, what the heart doth not, is not done, and there is a kind of Divinity, a Divine power in all the parts of Gods worship that is requisite, besides the bringing of the outward man: As in hearing, there is required a divine power to make a man heare as he ought to doe, to bow the neck of the inward man of the soul: & so to receive the Sacrament, more is required then the outward man. ⟨p. 176⟩