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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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Now therefore to make some use of it to our selves: let us enter into our own souls, and examine with what spirits, and feeling we hear God reproached, and religion reproached and ⟨p. 233⟩hindered, and disgraced any kind of way: if we be not sensible of this, and sensible to the quick, we may suspect we are not of Davids spirit, that was a man after Gods own heart: It was a cutting of his bones, when they came to disparage his Religion, and profession, and to touch him in that. Shall a man see men forsake Religion, and go backward, and desert the cause of God, and see it oppressed, and not be affected with all thi• certainly he hath a dead soul. That which hath no grief, when there is cause of grief, certainly it is to be accounted but as dead flesh. That heart is but dead flesh, that is not touched with the sense of religion.
Now therefore to make some use of it to our selves: let us enter into our owne soules, and examine with what spirits, and feeling wee heare God reproached, and religion reproached and ⟨p. 233⟩hindred, and disgraced any kind of way: if we be not sensible of this, and sensible to the quick, we may suspect wee are not of Davids spirit, that was a man after Gods owne heart: It was a cutting of his bones, when they came to disparage his Religion, and profession, and to touch him in that. Shall a man see men forsake Religion, and goe backeward, and desert the cause of God, and see it oppressed, and not be affected with all thi• certainly he hath a dead soule. That which hath no griefe, when there is cause of griefe, certainely it is to be accounted but as dead flesh. That heart is but dead flesh, that is not touched with the sence of religion.
And to come a little nearer to our times, when we can hear of the estate of the Church abroad, the poor Church in the Palatinate, in Bohemia, and those places: you see how like a canker, superstition is grown up amongst them: when we hear of these things, and are not affected, and do not send up a sigh to God, it is a sign we have hollow and dead hearts. No question but if we were there among those malignant spirits that are there, their speeches are daily such, as these wicked mens were to David, what is become of your reformation? what is become of your new Religion? where is that now I pray? You that do upbraid us with Idolatry, what is become of your Religion? no question but they have these casmes and […] speeches daily,