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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.
First of all concerning God: for when they said to him, Where is thy God?
First, it tended to the reproach of God, as if God were so fickle a friend, as to desert his best friends in the time of misery; this touched upon God, by way of disparagement, therefore it ⟨p. 229⟩must needs touch David, who was Gods friend.
Then again it touched God in another thing, in his manner of providence; as if he had been a God of the Hills, and not of the Valleys, as if he had been a God for one time, and not for another, where is now thy God? what is become of him?
Then againe it touched God in another thing, in his manner of providence; as if he had beene a God of the Hills, and not of the Vallies, as if he had been a God for one time, and not for another, where is now thy God? what is become of him?
Again in the third place, it touched upon him in this, as if he had favoured them (being cursed form all hypocrites) more then David: as if he had favoured their form all, hypocritical, base, dead courses, that were most abominable to God for these persecutors were Sauls courtiers, and other enemies; wicked men, they thought to justify their own ways by this reproach. You see we are as good as you: God respects us, we fall not into such miseries, we have recourse to Saul, though he have cast out you, and others &c. So it tended to Gods reproach in that; as if God had justified their course: as if they had been dearer to him, that were most abominable.