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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
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.
THE words are a terrible denunciation of a curse; of the man of God Joshua, wherein you have the Curse generally set down. Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth to build this City Jericho, and then a specification in particular, wherein the 1Curse stands; the two branches of the Curse are these, He shall lay the foundation of it in his First-borne, and in his youngest Son set up the Gates thereof. It shall be with the razing out of ⟨p. 102⟩his posterity. So that the Text is nothing else but a terrible denunciation under a curse of the destruction of the family of that person, that should labour to build up Jericho again. I will not speak much of Cursing or Blessing, being not pertinent to my purpose; only to give a touch of it. As in Blessing there are three things considerable, that come near one another; there is a Blessing, a Prayer, and a Prophecy; the Prayer is for a blessing to come, the Prophecy, is of the certainty of it, that it shall be, the Blessing is an efficacious application of the thing to the person. I mean those three, because the one gives light to the other. So it is likewise in Cursing, there is a Prayer, that God would pour forth his vengeance upon the enemies of the Church, and a prophetical Prediction that God will do it, and a Cursing, when it comes from a qualified person, that is lead by a better Spirit then his own (for every one is not fit to cast these bolts;) Cursing is an efficacious application of the curse to the person. When a man is (as it were) the declarative instrument, whereby God works, and brings the curse upon the person; so that we must account a curse to be a wondrous deep thing. The persons qualified for cursing or blessing, they are Parents, either politic, as Magistrates, or Parents natural, to curse or bless their children, as we see in Noah, Cursed be Ham, &c. Or else Parents spiritual, whose office it is indeed especially, ⟨p. 103⟩to bless, or curse. It is a greater matter then the world takes it for, a blessing, or a curse, especially from a spiritual Father. The Apostles that were spiritual Fathers of the Church, they begun their Epistles with blessings, and so the Prophets and Patriarchs.
THE words are a terrible denunciation of a curse; of the man of God Ioshua, wherein you have the Curse generally set downe. Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth to build this Citie Iericho, and then a specification in particular, wherein the