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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.
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 2Church, with Jewish and Heathenish Ceremonies, that the Jews condition was better then theirs; for these things should have been buried. Gerson, that had many good things in him, though he lived in ill times: Oh saith he, good Augustine, Dost thou complain of those times? what wouldest thou have said, if thou hadst lived now? What is Popery, but a mass of Jewish, and heathenish Ceremonies, besides some Blasphemies that they have? I speak concerning what they differ from ours, which are decent and orderly; what a mass of Ceremonies, and fooleries have they, to mislead men that are taken away with fancies to distaste the truth of God, and to have respect to fancies, to outward pomp, and gorgeous things, rather then the Gospel? These men build up Jericho again, and bury the Gospel as much as they can.
God did determine, that the Iewish Ceremonies 1should determine, and have an end and period: Now in Saint Pauls time, there were many that would put life into them, and joyne them with the Gospel. Saint Paul tels them, Christ shall profit you nothing: Those are they that build Iericho againe, that revive, and put life into that, that God hath determined should never revive againe. When the Iewish Ceremonies were honourably interred, and laid in their graves, these men would raise them out of their graves againe, and so venter upon Gods curse, and bee excluded from Christ. These are one sort of men, that raise Iericho