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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.
Then he sets down another ground of his grief, from the remembrance of his former happiness: as usually that doth make the grief raw, and more sensible: for fix miser, maxim miser, he that hath bin happy in former time, and now is miserable, is most miserable of all, because his former happiness makes him most sensible: therefore of all men in hell, the torment of great men is most, because they had most sense of comfort in this world: mighty men shall be mightily tormented, that is all the privilege they shall have in hell. Therefore to aggravate his grief, oh (saith he) when I remember what comfort I had formerly in the house of God, I pour out my soul. It was not enough that he poured out his tears, or words, but I po•re out my soul, for in former times, I went with the multitude to the house of ⟨p. 206⟩[…] ⟨p. 207⟩[…] ⟨p. 208⟩God, and lead a goodly train to the house of God. The picture of a good Magistrate, and a good master of a family, he goes not alone to the house of God, but he leads his train, he is attended on by his servants. David went not alone into the house of God, but with the multitude, with the voice of them that kept holiday. Well, he had grief enough, his heart was full of grief. Now in the next verse he takes 1up his soul, and expostulates with himself, why are thou so sad oh my soul, and why are thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. So you see here, he is not so flat in his grief, that he gives over-long way to it, but he even falls a chiding of his soul: why art thou cast down oh my soul, why art thou disquieted within me? oh! but yet grief will not be so stilled: affliction is not quelled at the first, nor grief stilled and stayed at the first, therefore it gathers upon him again in the next verse, Oh my God, my soul is cast down within me, when I remember thee from the Land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar: When I remember thee from these places, my soul is cast down again, and my afflictions are multiplied. Though he had fallen out with his soul, before, for his impatience. One deep calls to another, deep calls upon deep at the noise of the water-spouts. He compares afflictions to water spouts, as it is in scripture, All thy waves and billows have gone over me; even as one deep calls to another, so one