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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.
Let us labour therefore to have faith above all other graces: It is the Mother Grace, it is 1the Grace that is the spring of all Graces, if we wo•ld have patience, and hope, and love, and perseverance, and constancy together; let us labour to have faith strengthened, and to feed our faith the more, let us look to the word of God, make it familiar to us: the Spirit goes together with the word, to strengthen and increase our faith, and that being strengthened, all is strengthened whatsoever.
Let us labour therefore to have faith above all other graces: It is the Mother Grace, it is 1the Grace that is the spring of all Graces, if we wo•ld have patience, and hope, and love, and perseverance, and constancie together; let us labour to have faith strengthened, and to feed our faith the more, let us looke to the word of God, make it familiar to us: the Spirit goes together with the word, to strengthen and increase our faith, and that being strengthned, all is strengthned whatsoever.
- 1To labour for faith.
Now the way to try, whether we have this 1faith or no (not to speak largely of the point, but as the Text leads me) is, if we humbly attend upon the means that God hath appointed, though they seem base to carnal reason: As how do we know that these Israelites had faith, when they went about the walls of Jericho? because they have humbled themselves to use the base means, that God had appointed, though they were very unlikely. Naaman, out of the pride of his heart, saith he, what are the waters of Jordan? have not we waters that ⟨p. 95⟩