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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.
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.
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 spirituall: for God is a spirit, and hee loves that part of his worship that is spirituall and inward. Wee 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 wil 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 goe on. Not the washing away the filth of the body, But the answer of a good Conscience.
Upon the preventing of an objection, and removing their false confidence, he positively sets down what that is that doth save in Baptism, saith he, it is the answer of a good Conscience. The Scope of the words should have moved the holy Apostle to have said thus, not the putting off the filth of the Body, but the putting off the filth of the soul: but instead of that he sets down the act of the soul, which is an answer of a good Conscience to God, by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Upon the preventing of an objection, and removing their false confidence, hee positively sets downe what that is that doth save in Baptisme, saith he, it is the answer of a good Conscience. The Scope of the words should have moved the holy Apostle to have said thus, not the putting off the filth of the Body, but the putting off the filth of the soule: but instead of that hee sets downe the act of the soule, which is an answer of a good Conscience to God, by the Resurrection of Iesus Christ.