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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.
And so for Ministers; the spiritual means, 1whereby such heresies must be confounded, it 2is by the breath of the mouth of Christ, as it is 2 Thess. 2. He shall consume him with the breath of his mouth: For things are dissolved contrary 3to that way that they were raised at the first, and contrary to that way they were maintained: Popery, as it was raised; so it is maintained by darkness, and blindness, and ignorance of the word of God, and of divine truth: the way to hinder it therefore from being built again, is to lay open divine truths, and to plant the ministry: Every one must labour for this, to be faithful in their place, and standing. Saint Paul saith, 2 Tim. They shall prevail no longer, because their madness shall be manifest. How doth that follow? The very manifestation of error hinders the prevailing of it: That is the way to hinder Popery from prevailing, to manifest it by preaching, and writing, and such good means: For the demonstration of errors to be so, is a refuting of ⟨p. 81⟩them: For who would willingly be deceived? Therefore the laying open of the madness of Popery, and the folly of their devises, it hinders their prevailing; no man willingly would have his soul led into error: Therefore let us lay their errors open in the Ministry, and the grounds of them, the danger of Popery, how pernicious it is. When this is discovered in the Ministry, men as they love their own souls will take heed: That is the way therefore to keep the walls of Jericho from being built, to set an able Ministry every where, and to countenance them; and those that are Gods Captains to fight his battles against them.
And so for Ministers; the spirituall means, 1whereby such heresies must be confounded, it 2is by the breath of the mouth of Christ, as it is