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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
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Again, they instance here in matter of Religion against him. You see how ready wicked, and devilish minded men are, to tread over the ⟨p. 221⟩hedge where it is lowest; as the proverb is, to add affliction to affliction, especially in that that may touch a man nearest: they could not touch him nearer then in this, Where is thy God. They knew it well enough, where is now your Religion: this they thought would anger him to the heart: here is a devilish disposition: you have a terrible Psalm for it, Psalm 109. of those that ad affliction to the afflicted, 1They are cursed persons. This is the disposition of wicked men, they have no mercy, malice we say is unsatiable. One would think that our Saviour Christ, when he was upon the Cross, racked there in all his parts, a man exposed to so much misery and scorn as he was, that they should have had pity upon him; but upon the Cross, they reproached him, Aha, he saved others, himself be cannot save; let him come from the Cross, and we will believe in him. What a bitter Sarcasm was this, that came from hell it self. Nay when he was dead, one would have thought their malice should have been buried with his body. Malice is ordinarily among men living, not the dead, but when he was dead, This Impostor said &c. They laboured to bury his good name, that nothing tending to his honour might remain of him. Indeed it is the nature of malice to wish the not being of the thing it maliceth; no, not the name. Let his name perish from the earth. It was extremity of malice to work upon this disadvantage: when they see him thus afflicted, to vex him ⟨p. 222⟩with that he was most affected with, where is thy God.
Againe, they instance here in matter of Religion against him. You see how readie wicked, and divelish minded men are, to tread over the ⟨p. 221⟩hedge where it is lowest; as the proverbe is, to adde affliction to affliction, especially in that that may touch a man nearest: they could not touch him nearer then in this, Where is thy God. They knew it well enough, where is now your Religion: this they thought would anger him to the heart: here is a devilish disposition: you have a terrible Psalme for it,