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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.
Before I come to the words, observe in general this; That a living soul, the soul that is alive in grace, that hath the life of grace quickening it, is most sensible of all, in the want of spiritual means: As here, the grief of griefs was (which he begins with) that he was banished from the Tabernacle.
Before I come to the words, observe in generall this; That a living soule, the soule that is alive in grace, that hath the life of grace quickning it, is most sensible of all, in the want of spirituall meanes: As here, the griefe of griefes was (which he begins with) that he was banished from the Tabernacle.
What shall we think therefore of those that excommunicate themselves from Gods assembly, where there is the Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, all the Trinity dispensing their bounty, and where the prayers of Gods people meet together in one (as it were) and bind God? What shall we think of them that prefer their private devotions (as they say) before Gods assemblies? Surely, they are not of Davids mind; and it is a shrewd argument, that they never had the life of grace in them yet: for where life is, there will be hunger and thirst; Acrius urgent quae ad naturam. It is a true Aphorism, Those things press upon Nature hardest, that touch upon the necessities of Nature, rather then those that touch upon delight, We can want delights, but necessities of Nature we cannot; therefore hunger and thirst they are such passions as will not be quiet: delicacies and novelties the soul of a hungry man can be content to want, but not spiritual ⟨p. 212⟩food for the soul. We see how famine wrought upon the Patriarchs, it made them go down into Egypt for food. I note it only by the way, that men may know how to judge of themselves, when they can very well be content, without a blessed supply of holy means. Holy David, when the means was but dark and obscure, when the Canon was not enlarged, when all was in types and clouds; yet he felt that comfort in the Tabernacle, and in the Ordinances of God, that he could not endure the want of them: but as the Hart brayeth after the Water-brooks, so his soul panted after God. But to come to the words themselves. As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me, when they say unto me daily, Where is thy God?