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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.
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Gods children are impatient as far as they ⟨p. 218⟩are men, of reproaches, but so far as they are Christian men, they are impatient of reproaches in Religion, where is now thy God? They were not such desperate Atheists as to think there was no God, to call in question whether there were a God or no, (though indeed they were little better:) but they rather reproach, and upbraid him with his singularity; where is thy God? You are one of Gods darlings, you are one that thought no body served God but you, you are one that will go alone, your God.
Gods children are impatient as farre as they ⟨p. 218⟩are men, of reproaches, but so farre as they are Christian men, they are impatient of reproaches in Religion, where is now thy God? They were not such desperate Atheists as to thinke there was no God, to call in question whether there were a God or no, (though indeed they were little better:) but they rather reproach, and upbraid him with his singularity; where is thy God? You are one of Gods darlings, you are one that thought no body served God but you, you are one that will goe alone, your God.
So this is an ordinary reproach, an ordinary part for wicked men, to cast at the best people, especially when they are in misery: what is become of your profession now? what is become of your forwardness, and strictness now? what is become of your much reading, and hearing now? and your doing such things now? what is become of your God that you bragged so of, and thought your selves so happy in, as if he had been no bodies God but yours? We may learn hence the disposition of wicked men; it is a character of a poysonfull cursed disposition to upbraid a man with his Religion.
So this is an ordinary reproach, an ordinary part for wicked men, to cast at the best people, especially when they are in miserie: what is become of your profession now? what is become of your forwardnesse, and strictnesse now? what is become of your much reading, and hearing now? and your doing such things now? what is become of your God that you bragged so of, and thought your selves so happie in, as if he had beene no bodies God but yours? We may learn hence the disposition of wicked men; it is a character of a poysonfull cursed disposition to upbraid a man with his Religion.