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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
THE RUIN OF MYSTICAL JERICHO.THE RVINE OF MYSTICALL IERICHO.
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.
Well, but what hath God done? God hath infatuate, and overthrown their walls, and by weak means. Luther a poor Monk, with a 1Trumpet of Rams-horns, with his preaching, and with his writing; you see how he shook the walls of Rome, how much they have lost within the last hundred years, the last age, the last Century of years they have lost a great ⟨p. 78⟩part of this Western part of the world, that they had in slavery before, and how by weak means (as you heard) by the preaching of the Gospel, by Learning, and Knowledge. It is no wonder that the Devil hates Knowledge and Learning, as Luther saith well, He hates the quills of Geese, because they are Instruments to write against them. He hath a Kingdom of darkness; and Hell, and the Pope is a King of darkness: Now when the light of Knowledge, the light of the Word of God, the ordinance of God, when preaching came; these poor Trumpets did shake the Church of Rome: As we see in England, the walls of Jericho fell down; by what m•anes? by a Child (in manner) King Edward the sixth, and 2after by a woman; and if the word of God had gone on in like proportion in other places▪ Popery had been lower then it is.
Well, but what hath God done? God hath infatuate, and overthrowne their wals, and by weake meanes. Luther a poore Monke, with a 1Trumpet of Rams-hornes, with his preaching, and with his writing; you see how he shooke the wals of Rome, how much they have lost within the last hundred yeares, the last age, the last Centurie of yeares they have lost a great ⟨p. 78⟩part of this Westerne part of the world, that they had in slavery before, and how by weak meanes (as you heard) by the preaching of the Gospel, by Learning, and Knowledge. It is no wonder that the Devill hates Knowledge and Learning, as Luther saith well, Hee hates the quils of Geese, because they are Instruments to write against them. Hee hath a Kingdome of darkenesse; and Hell, and the Pope is a King of darkenesse: Now when the light of Knowledge, the light of the Word of God, the ordinance of God, when preaching came; these poore Trumpets did shake the Church of Rome: As wee see in England, the wals of Iericho fell downe; by what manes? by a Child (in manner) King Edward the sixt, and