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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.
The Apostle St. Paul, when Ely•as laboured to stop, when one was to be converted, he breaks out, Then child of the Devil, and enemy of all good, why dost thou not cease to pervert the right ways of God? A man that is not fired in this case, hath nothing at all in him, when we see-wicked men go about to pervert Religion, and overturn all, and we are not stirred at it, it is an ill sign.
The Apostle St. Paul, when Ely•as laboured to stop, when one was to be converted, hee breakes out, Then childe of the Devill, and enemy of all good, why dost thou not cease to pervert the right wayes of God? A man that is not fired in this case, hath nothing at all in him, when we see-wicked men goe about to pervert Religion, and overturne all, and we are not stirred at it, it is an ill signe.
Let us therefore take a trial of our selves, how we stand affected in case of Religion: He that hath no zeal in him, hath no love: by an Antiperistasis, a opposition of the contrary, increaseth the contrary: if a man have any goodness, if it be environed with opposition, it will intend the goodness and increase it. Lot showed his goodness in Sodom the more, because of the wickedness of the Sodomites, when a man is in vile company, and hears Religion disgraced, and good persons scoffed at, and will not have a word to justify good causes, and good persons, he hath no life at all of Religion; for if he had, he would then have more Religion then ordinary, the contrary would then intend, and increase the contrary. There was a blessed mixture of many affections in this grief ⟨p. 235⟩of the holy man David, when he said, their words were as a sword in his bones. There was great grief, not only for himself, as a man being sensible of reproaches: for men are men, and not out of corrupt nature, but out of the principles of nature, they are sensible of reproaches: here was grief in respect of God, and in respect of himself: and here was the love of God, and the love of Religion in this grief. Here was zeal in this, and a sweet mixture of blessed affections, a sweet temper in this, when he saith, their words were as a sword in my bones.