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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 for all other things that stand between 1us, and heaven, all the walls of Jericho, all opposition, let us set upon them with a spirit of faith in the use of means: for he that hath overcome for us (as I said) will by little and little overcome in us: These corruptions of ours shall fall before the Spirit of God, by little and little; And as Hamans wife could tell him, If thou begin to fall before that people, th• shalt certainly fall: so if the work of Grace be begun in us, that corruptions begin to fall, undoubtedly, and certainly they shall fall: they cannot stand before the Spirit. For grace is in growing, and corruption is in decaying continually in a Christian.2
And for all other things that stand between 1us, and heaven, all the wals of Iericho, all opposition, let us set upon them with a spirit of faith in the use of meanes: for hee that hath overcome for us (as I said) will by little and little overcome in us: These corruptions of ours shall fall before the Spirit of God, by little and little; And as Hamans wife could tel him, If thou begin to fall before that people, th• shalt certainly fall: so if the worke of Grace be begun in us, that corruptions begin to fall, undoubtedly, and certainly they shall fall: they cannot stand before the Spirit. For grace is in growing, and corruption is in decaying continually in a Christian.2
- 1To set against our corruptions by faith.
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