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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.
Take this Caution by the way; though Joshua were a man of God, he was a mixed person; he was both a Magistrate, and in some sort a Minister: As we say of Kings, they are mixed persons, they are Keepers of both tables; 1there is more in the supreme Magistrate, then is common. Every one must not take upon him to curse upon every motion of the flesh; for here it is not (as one of the Ancients saith well) The wrath of a man in commotion, and fury; but the sentence of a man in a peaceable temper, who is the Conveyer of Gods curse; it is passive here, as well as active.
Take this Caution by the way; though Iosua were a man of God, hee was a mixt person; he was both a Magistrate, and in some sort a Minister: As we say of Kings, they are mixt persons, they are Keepers of both tables; 1there is more in the supreme Magistrate, then is common. Every one must not take upon him to curse upon every motion of the flesh; for here it is not (as one of the Ancients saith well) The wrath of a man in commotion, and furie; but the sentence of a man in a peaceable temper, who is the Conveyer of Gods curse; it is passive here, as well as active.
- 1Custodes utriusque tabulae.
In the New Testament we are commanded to bless, and not to curse. It is a common fault, upon every distemper to fall a cursing, and oft times it lights as an Arrow shot upwards upon the head of the Curser: we are people of Gods blessing, all true Believers, and we should delight in blessing, having felt the blessing of God our selves upon our souls, we should be moved to blessing; both by way of gratitude to those that are our superiors, and have done us good, that God would bless them: and by way of amity, and friend-ship ⟨p. 105⟩to those that are under us, or about us; and by way of mercy to our very enemies; we should pray for, and bless our very enemies themselves, as our Blessed Saviour prayed for them that cursed him. This should be our ordinary disposition, we should be all for blessing. As for curses we must take heed, that we direct them not against any particular person, we have