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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.
Where first of all, you must know this for a ground (indeed it is a hard place of Scripture, I will only take that that I think fittest, and raise what observations I think fit for you, that ⟨p. 178⟩out of that; you must know for a ground) that There is a Covenant of Grace.
Where first of all, you must know this for a ground (indeed it is a hard place of Scripture, I will only take that that I think fittest, and rayse what observations I think fit for you, that ⟨p. 178⟩out of that; you must know for a ground) that There is a Covenant of Grace.
Since God and Man brake in the Creation, there is a Covenant which we call a Covenant of Grace. God hath stooped so low, he hath condescended to enter into terms of Covenant with us: Now the foundation of this Covenant is, that God will be our God, and give us grace and glory, and all good in Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant. Christ is the 1foundation of the Covenant, the Mediator of the Covenant, a friend to both: to God as God, to man as man, God and man in himself, and by office; such is his office, as to procure love and agreement between God and man. He being the foundation of the Covenant, there must be agreement in him. Now Christ is the foundation of the Covenant, by satisfying Gods justice: else God and we could never have come to good terms, nor conscience could ever have bin satisfied. For God must be satisfied before conscience be satisfied: Conscience else would think God is angry, and he hath not received full satisfaction; and conscience will never be satisfied but with that that God is satisfied with. God is satisfied with the Death of the Mediator: so conscience being sprinkled with the blood of Christ, applying the death of Christ, conscience is satisfied too. Now what doth show, that the death of the Mediator is a sufficient sacrifice, and Satisfaction? The Resurrection