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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
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And with these, let us join our prayers to 1God, and our thanksgiving; we are not thankful enough, that God hath brought us out of the Kingdom of darkness; not only out of the darkness of sin, and Satan; b• from the darkness of Popery. We have no• been thankful to God for that Deliveran• in Queen Elizabeths time, out of the Egyptian darkness, and the Deliverance in our la• Kings time, and deliverances in later times▪ we are not thankful enough; and we beg• to show it, in not making much of Religion▪ and growing in further, and further obedience of Religion. Is this our thankfulness t• God? what doth Religion hurt us? are […] not beholding to God for our Religion, and t• Religion for our peace, and Deliverance […] hath not God witnessed the truth of our Religion from Heaven by Deliverances? hath no• God been with us strangely, by the confusion of the plots of others? and how do we […] quite it? by growing to a luke-warm temper. A luke-warm temper is odious in th• sight of God. I would thou wert hot or cold, saith Christ. The best Religion in the world is odious, if it be cold; God will not endure us t• join the Ark and Dagon, Christ and Belial. Certainly, if we do, God will spue […] all out; it will be the confusion of the Church ⟨p. 125⟩d State; and yet this is the thankfulness •at we give to God, for the Gospel of peace, •at we have been so much beholding to •im for.
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