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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.
What a comfort is it when our hearts and Consciences makes a gracious answer to God, 1in believing and obeying? and in renouncing all Gods and our enemies? What a comfort is such a Conscience? It will uphold us in sickness, in death, and at the day of judgement, in all ill times in this life. A Conscience that hath answered God by believing his promises and hath renewed the Covenant to obey God in all things, what a wondrous peace hath it? Let the Devil object what he can, let our unbelieving hearts object what they can, yet notwithstanding if it be a renewed sanctified Conscience, it can; out of the privity of its own act, say, I have believed, I have cast my self upon Gods mercy in Christ, I have renounced these motions and suggestions, and courses: and though I be overcome with temptations, yet I heartily hate them. What a comfort is this?
What a comfort is it when our hearts and Consciences makes a gracious answer to God, 1in believing and obeying? and in renouncing all Gods and our enemies? What a comfort is such a Conscience? It will uphold us in sicknesse, in death, and at the day of judgement, in all ill times in this life. A Conscience that hath answered God by believing his promises and hath renewed the Covenant to obey God in all things, what a wondrous peace hath it? Let the Devill object what he can, let our unbelieving hearts object what they can, yet notwithstanding if it bee a renewed sanctified Conscience, it can; out of the privity of its owne act, say, I have believed, I have cast my selfe upon Gods mercy in Christ, I have renounced these motions and suggestions, and courses: and though I bee overcome with temptations, yet I heartily hate them. What a comfort is this?
- 1Comfort from the answer of a good Conscience.
Conscience; it is either the greatest friend, or the greatest enemy in the world. It is the chiefest friend when it is privy to it self of this resolute answer: that it hath obeyed God in all things; then Conscience is our friend, it speaks to God for us at all times. Then again at the hour of death, what a comfort it is, that we have this answer of a good conscience, especially at the day of judgement, when we can look God in the face: a sincere heart,