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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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Therefore let us support our selves with this in all times: was God gone from David indeed, when they said, Where is thy God? Oh, no, God was as near David now as ever he was, nay rather nearer. God was never nearer Moses then when he was sprawling upon the water in that Ark ⟨p. 225⟩they had made for him. He was never nearer Daniel, then when he was in the Lyons Den; God came between the Lyons teeth, and Daniel; and as I said, he was never nearer our Saviour then when he was on the Cross. And he was never nearer to David, then when they said, where is thy God? When trouble is near, God is never far off; that is an argument to make God near, Lord be not far off, for trouble is near. And extremity, and danger, and trouble, it is Gods best opportunity to be with his children, how ever he do not help for the present oft times. Where is thy God?
Therefore let us support our selves with this in all times: was God gone from David indeed, when they said, Where is thy God? Oh, no, God was as neare David now as ever he was, nay rather nearer. God was never nearer Moses then when he was sprawling upon the water in that Arke ⟨p. 225⟩they had made for him. He was never nearer Daniel, then when he was in the Lyons Den; God came betweene the Lyons teeth, and Daniel; and as I said, he was never nearer our Saviour then when he was on the Crosse. And he was never nearer to David, then when they said, where is thy God? When trouble is neare, God is never farre off; that is an argument to make God neare, Lord be not farre off, for trouble is neare. And extremitie, and danger, and trouble, it is Gods best opportunitie to be with his children, how ever he doe not helpe for the present oft times. Where is thy God?
David might rather have said to them, where are your eyes? where is your sight? for God is not only in heaven, but in me. Though David was shut from the Sanctuary; yet Davids soul was a sanctuary for God: for God is not tied to a sanctuary made with hands. God hath two Sanctuaries, he hath two heavens: the heaven of heavens, and a broken spirit, God dwelt in David as in his Temple. God was with David and in him; and he was never more with him, nor never more in him, then in his greatest afflictions: they wanted eyes, he wanted not God. Though sometimes God hide himself, not only from the world, but from his own children, yet he is there, howsoever their sorrow is such, that it dims their sight, as we see in Hagar, so that they cannot see him for the present: he sometimes looks in their face, as we see Mary, she could not see Christ distinctly, but thought