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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.
There are divers degrees of men, that venture upon curses, and thereupon grow to be cursed 1themselves, even as this man ventured upon the building of Jericho, so there be many tha• do the like in a proportionable kind. I shall name some few.
There are divers degrees of men, that venter upon curses, and thereupon grow to be cursed 1themselves, even as this man ventered upon the building of Iericho, so there be many tha• doe the like in a proportionable kind. I shall name some few.
- 1Men build Jericho again.Men build Iericho againe.
God did determine, that the Jewish Ceremonies 1should determine, and have an end and period: Now in Saint Pauls time, there were many that would put life into them, and join them with the Gospel. Saint Paul tells them, Christ shall profit you nothing: Those are they that build Jericho again, that revive, and put life into that, that God hath determined should never revive again. When the Jewish Ceremonies were honourably interred, and laid in their graves, these men would raise them out of their graves again, and so venture upon Gods curse, and be excluded from Christ. These are one sort of men, that raise Jericho ⟨p. 115⟩again. And so afterwards in the Church, •here were those that would build up Jericho, •hat would still retain Jewish Ceremonies, •nd Heathenish in the Church, and some at the first with no ill minds. But then afterwards, as Augustine complains, they so pestered the