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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.
I answer, the place must be understood of 1those of years of discretion; For infants that dye in their infancy, we have a double ground of comfort concerning them. First they are within the Covenant, have they not received the seal of the Covenant, which is Baptism? And how-ever, they actually answer not the Covenant of grace, by actual believing: yet they have the seed of believing, the spirit of God in them, and God doth comprehend them ⟨p. 191⟩by his mercy being not able to comprehend him, nay we that are at years of discretion are saved by Gods comprehending, and embracing us; we are comprehended of him, as the Child is of the nurse, or of the Mother. The Child holds 2the nurse, and the nurse the Child, the Child is more safe from falling by the nurse, and the Mothers holding of it, then by its holding of them. Those that are at years must clasp and grasp about Christ, but Christ holds and comprehends them; much more doth God comprehend those that are Children, that are not able to comprehend him. For those that live to years of discretion, their Baptism is 3an engagement, and obligation to them to believe: because they have undertaken by those that answered for them to believe when they come to years: and if when they come to years, they answer not the Covenant of grace, and the answer of a good conscience, if they do not believe, and renounce Satan, all is frustrate: their Baptism doth them no good, if they make not good their Covenant by believing and renouncing. It is spoken therefore of those that are of years of discretion: we leave infants to the mercy of God. Those therefore that are at years of discretion, must have grace to answer the Covenant of grace by believing, and renouncing. To come therefore to our selves.
I answer, the place must be understood of 1those of yeares of discretion; For infants that dye in their infancie, we have a double ground of comfort concerning them. First they are within the Covenant, have they not received the seale of the Covenant, which is Baptisme? And how-ever, they actually answer not the Covenant of grace, by actuall beleeving: yet they have the seed of beleeving, the spirit of God in them, and God doth comprehend them