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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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We hate them that misuse us under the pretence of love, that cheat and cozen us, and we delight in their punishment; there was never Cheater, never Cozener like this: And surely so God hath fulfilled his word, that she is hated even in our Children, that know but the grounds of Religion, to whom Christ hath shined by the evidences of his thuth, that have the Spirit of God in them, they hate those Impostures, those abuses of Christian Religion, with which this Beast hath deluded the Christian world, which shows that they have a contrary spirit to the Spirit of God; and indeed so they have, for besides their own base government, they maintain the corruptions of men, feeding the pride and vanity of mens natures, with outward, formal, empty things; so that the very weak ones, even Children ⟨p. 49⟩now they hate the Whore, hate her Impostures, hate her Cruelty, hate her Lying, and all.
We hate them that misuse us under the pretence of love, that cheat and cozen us, and we delight in their punishment; there was never Cheater, never Cozener like this: And surely so God hath fulfilled his word, that shee is hated even in our Children, that know but the grounds of Religion, to whom Christ hath shined by the evidences of his thuth, that have the Spirit of God in them, they hate those Impostures, those abuses of Christian Religion, with which this Beast hath deluded the Christian world, which shewes that they have a contrary spirit to the Spirit of God; and indeed so they have, for besides their own base government, they maintaine the corruptions of men, feeding the pride and vanity of mens natures, with outward, formall, empty things; so that the very weake ones, even Children ⟨p. 49⟩now they hate the Whore, hate her Impostures, hate her Cruelty, hate her Lying, and all.
I see the time is past, I can go no further, •ut will draw to an end, only a little to still us up. Shall God then reveal, and discover this painted Strumpet, this Bawd, and shall we labour to conceal her ill, shall we daub, shall we make her better then she is? shall we hinder Gods purpose? Gods word is, that she shall be revealed, the Princes shall hate her, and consume her with fire: Let every one of our purposes help Gods purpose and Providence, and decree in this point, that this shall be, it is Gods purpose; and whosoever stops it, certainly they bring the judgement of God upon them; those that would rear up Jericho again, we know what befell them, and they that rear up Rome, that begins now to be discovered, they bring the Judgement of God upon them: God will perform this as well, as he performed the other, as he put it into the hearts of these Kings to betray their Kingdoms to the Beast, so he will put into their hearts to hate the Whore.