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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.
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 ⟨p. 224⟩[…] ⟨p. 225⟩[…] ⟨p. 226⟩him to be the Gardiner. There is a kind of concealment a while in heavenly wisdom, yet notwithstanding, God is with his children always, and they know it by faith, though not by feeling always. As we know what Jacob said, God was in this place, and I was not aware; when he slept upon the stone, and had that heavenly vision. So it is with Gods people in their trouble, God is with his Church, and children, and wicked men are not aware of it: Christ is in them, and they are not aware of it. Christ was in the Saints, when Saul persecuted them, and Paul was not aware of it: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? who art thou Lord? saith he; alas, he dreamed not of Christ. How ever wicked men of the world think, yet God is near his own children, in the most disconsolate condition that can be. It is (when they say, where is thy God?) as if a man should ask what is become of the Moon, between the old, and the new, when the dark side is towards us? when we see no Moon at all for a time, till the new come: The Moon is near, and more enlightened with the Sun then, then at other times, and is nearer to him. So in afflictions, how ever, the dark side of Gods children be toward the world that they cannot see them: yet their light side is towards God, God shines upon them, and enlightens them more then, at that time with solid comfort that keeps them from sinking, then at other times: therefore it was an ignorant question of ⟨p. 227⟩