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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 Ministers likewise are to learn their 1duty hence, to observe the dispositions of people, and what bars they lay to their own salvation: if we see them superstitious, that they swell in outward performances, and so are deluded by Satan in an ill state, and feed themselves with husks, then we are to take away such objections as much as we can, as S. Peter here, when he had said that Baptism answers to the Flood, both show the deliverance of Gods people by the blood of Christ, I saith he, not the outward Baptism, the washing of the Body, but the answer of a good Conscience.
The Ministers likewise are to learne their 1duty hence, to observe the dispositions of people, and what barres they lay to their own salvation: if wee see them superstitious, that they swel in outward performances, and so are deluded by Sathan in an ill state, and feed themselves with huskes, then we are to take away such objections as much as wee can, as S. Peter here, when he had said that Baptisme answers to the Flood, both shew the deliverance of Gods people by the blood of Christ, I saith he, not the outward Baptisme, the washing of the Body, but the answer of a good Conscience.
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So Christ takes away a secret objection, say not with your selves, we have Abraham to our Father. And to feed people in their ill humours, this is not the way: but to labour to make them spiritual: for God is a spirit, and he loves that part of his worship that is spiritual and inward. We shall have no man damned in the Church, if there were not an inward spiritual part of Gods worship: for the worst men of all will be busiest in outward performances, and glory most in it of any other. It is a delusion that brings thousands to hell, and that made me a little dwell upon it. But I go on. Not the washing away the filth of the body, But the answer of a good Conscience.