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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.
I could be long to show that it came by degrees, 1while the Husband men slept, then the Devil sowed his tares by Heretics, and such like: It grew by degrees. And then the world was scarred, and terrified with shows, and fancies; as with the succession of Peter, that is a mere fancy; and then they were frighted with Excommunications, the terrible sentence of the Church. And then again it is a kingdom of darkness, Popery is; by little and little they brought in Ignorance, not only of the Scriptures, but of other things, they had their prayers in an unknown tongue, forbidding the Scriptures, and the like. In the night they might do what they would, when they had put out the Candle; when they had buried the knowledge of the word of God, they might bring in any heresy, many ways they came in.
I could be long to shew that it came by degrees, 1while the Husband men slept, then the Devill sowed his tares by Hereticks, and such like: It grew by degrees. And then the world was scarred, and terrified with shewes, and fancies; as with the succession of Peter, that is a meere fancie; and then they were frighted with Excommunications, the terrible sentence of the Church. And then againe it is a kingdome of darkenesse, Poperie is; by little and little they brought in Ignorance, not only of the Scriptures, but of other things, they had their prayers in an unknowne tongue, forbidding the Scriptures, and the like. In the night they might doe what they would, when they had put out the Candle; when they had buried the knowledge of the word of God, they might bring in any heresie, many wayes they came in.
- 1Answ. How Popery sprang up.
Now the preaching of the Gospel, is the 1means to pull down these walls of Jericho, it is the going about the walls of Jericho: By the