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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.
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.
I see the time is past, I can goe no further, •ut will draw to an end, only a little to still us up. Shall God then reveale, and discover this painted Strumpet, this Bawd, and shall wee labour to conceale her ill, shall we dawbe, shall we make her better then she is? shall we hinder Gods purpose? Gods word is, that shee shall be revealed, the Princes shall hate her, and consume her with fire: Let every one of our purposes helpe Gods purpose and Providence, and decree in this point, that this shall be, it is Gods purpose; and whosoever stops it, certainely they bring the judgement of God upon them; those that would reare up •ericho againe, wee know what befell them, and they that reare up Rome, that begins now to bee discovered, they bring the Iudgement of God upon them: God will performe this as well, as he performed the other, as he put it into the hearts of these Kings to betray their Kingdomes to the Beast, so hee will put into their hearts to hate the Whore.
Now that we may hate her, let every one labour in his place, Ministers in their place to lay open their Impostures, their cousenings, and all their filthiness, whereby they deceive the people: Magistrates in their place to ocuntenance the Ministers, to see the laws executed as they may: These that through ignorance