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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
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.
THE SWORD OF THE WICKED.
PSAL. 42. 10. As with a Sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me: while they say unto me daily, where is thy GOD?
THE Psalms are (as it were) the Anatomy of a holy man: they lay the inside of a true devout man outward, even to the view of others.
THE Psalmes are (as it were) the Anatomy of a holy man: they lay the inside of a true devout man outward, even to the view of others.
If the Scripture be compared to a body, the Psalms may well be the heart, they are so full of sweet and holy affections, and passions. In other portions of Scripture, God speaks to us in the Psalms, holy ⟨p. 206⟩men, especially David (who was the pen-man of most of them) speaks to God, wherein we have the passages of a broken humble soul to God. Among the rest, in this Psalm, David lays open variety of passions. His condition at this time was such, as that he was an exiled man, from his own house, and his own friends, and which grieved him worst of all, from the Tabernacle, the house of God. It was upon the occasion of Sauls persecution, or of Absaloms his son: but I take it rather of Sauls that hunted him as a partridge in the wilderness. Hereupon you have a discovery, how this holy man of God stood affected with this case and condition of his. First he lays open his grief, his grief ariseth from his desire: he that loves most, and desireth most, he always grieves most: and all other affections have their scantling from love, which is the first borne affection of the soul. Therefore before he lays, out his grief, he sets out his desire to the house of God: the want whereof grieved him most of all. As the Hart panteth after the water brooks; so panteth my soul after thee Oh God. As the chased Hart panteth after water, so the soul thirsteth for God, for the living God, h when shall I come and appear before God.