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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.
If any man will be so venturous to build it 1up again, as one Hiel did, in 1 King. 16. 34. If any man will be so audacious, he shall do it with the peril of the life of his first begotten; and if he will not desist then, he shall finish the Gates of it, he shall make an end of it with the death of his younger Sonne. It is Gods custom, to denounce a threatening of a curse 2before he execute it. It is a part of Gods mercy, and of his blessing, that he will curse only in the threatening: for therefore he curseth, that he might not execute it: and therefore he threateneth, that he might not smite, and when he smites, he smites that he might not destroy, and when he kills the body, it is that he might not destroy the soul, as 1 Cor. 11. 32. Therefore some of you are weak, and sick, and 3some sleep, that you might not be condemned with the world. Thus God is merciful, even till it comes to the last upshot, that men by their rebellions provoke him; Gods mercy strives ⟨p. 109⟩with the sins of men. Mark here the degrees of it, first God threatens the Curse, Cursed be the man. And then in the particulars, he begins with the eldest Sonne. First there is a threatening, and when the execution comes, he takes not all his Sons away at once, but begins with the Eldest; and if that will not do, he goes to the youngest.
If any man will bee so venturous to build it 1up againe, as one Hiel did, in 1 King. 16. 34. If any man will be so audacious, he shall doe it with the perill of the life of his first begotten; and if he will not desist then, he shall finish the Gates of it, hee shall make an end of it with the death of his younger Sonne. It is Gods custome, to denounce a threatning of a curse