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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 by a holy life; for when men are vicious, 1and carnal, they occasion God (for not •oving, and embracing the truth) to give them •p to Popish errors, and such like. Many ways there be to stop the building up of Jericho.
And by a holy life; for when men are vicious, 1and carnall, they occasion God (for not •oving, and imbracing the truth) to give them •p to Popish errours, and such like. Many waies there be to stop the building up of Iericho.
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But this is one especial, which this day occasions; 1that is, thankfulness to God, a thankful Remembrance, how God hath fought for […]; how God hath by little and little ruinated the walls of this Jericho, and hath helped us to build the walls of our Jerusalem. A thankful Remembrance is a notable means to hinder the growth of Popery: For when we remember their attempts, how God hath cursed and crossed them, it will make us love our Religion, that God hath witnessed to by so many Deliverances, and it will make us hate theirs the more: Therefore it was a worthy work of that Reverend Bishop, that set out in a Treatise all the Deliverances that have been from Popish Conspiracies, from the beginning of Queen Elizabeths time to this present; it was a worthy work, beseeming that grave, and Reverend Person. Prayer gets blessings, but thankfulness keeps them: so thankfulness to God for that which is past, for so many Deliverances, is a means to preserve Gods love, and care of us still; that he will be our Buckler and castle, & hold, and all defence, thankfulness will do this.