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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.
To the Reader.
SO precious the remembrance should be of GODS thoughts of mercy to usward, when he delivered us from that hellish plot of the Gunpowder Treason, that if there were nothing else to commend this Treatise to us, the first Sermons here presented to us, which were preached upon that occasion, may justly procure it a ready and hearty welcome.
SO precious the remembrance should be of GODS thoughts of mercy to usward, when he delivered us from that hellish plot of the Gunpouder Treason, that if there were nothing else to commend this Treatise to us, the first Sermons here presented to us, which were preached upon that occasion, may justly procure it a ready and hearty welcome.
When GOD works such wonders for a Church and people as that was, it is not enough to praise GOD for the present, and to rejoice greatly in the great salvation He hath wrought for them; yea the more a people are in such a case affected for the present, the more inexcusable they must needs be, ⟨image 6⟩[…] ⟨image 6⟩[…] ⟨image 7⟩if afterward they slight and disregard it, and that because their former joy proves, they were throughly convinced of the greatness of the mercy, and so discovers their following ingratitude to be the more abominable; whence it was that when Jonathan put his Father Saul in mind how David killed Goliath, and thereby had wrought a great deliverance for them (to the end he might no longer seek his ruin, that had been the means of so much good to GODS people) withal he wished him to consider that he himself stood by, an eye-witness of that Noble exploit of Davids, and was then mightily affected with joy when he saw that formidable Giant fall under his hand, Thou sawest it (saith he) and didst rejoice,