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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.
For a use therefore of exhortation, if so be that this be the effectual baptism, the chief 1thing that we ought to stand on, this answer of a good conscience; then I beseech you let us all labour for this echo, for this answer, when God saith, seek ye my face, to answer, thy face Lord will I seek. When he saith, I will be your God, to answer, we will be thy people, when he saith, in the Ministry believe, to answer, Lord I believe, help 2my unbelief; let us labour to echo, this holy echo is the answer in the Covenant of grace.
For a use therefore of exhortation, if so be that this be the effectuall baptisme, the chiefe 1thing that we ought to stand on, this answer of a good conscience; then I beseech you let us all labour for this eccho, for this answer, when God saith, seeke yee my face, to answer, thy face Lord will I seeke. When he saith, I will be your God, to answer, we will be thy people, when he saith, in the Ministery beleeve, to answer, Lord I beleeve, helpe 2my unbeliefe; let us labour to eccho, this holie eccho is the answer in the Covenant of grace.
This answer of our faith, is set down in Scripture, alway when it speaks of the estate of those that are in the Covenant of grace, it is mentioned on our part, that we take God for our God, and Christ for our Christ; My beloved is