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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.
The reasonable, understanding creature, and Religion that ties that creature to God, a discovery of God what that Religion shall be.
For in the intercourse between God and 1Man, man can do nothing, except he hath his warrant from God. It is extreme arrogance for man to devise a worship of God. Do we think that God will suffer the creature to serve him as he pleaseth? No, that were to make the creature, which is the Servant, to be the ⟨p. 139⟩Master. It belongs to the Master or Lord to appoint the service: what Master, or Lord will be served according to the liberty, and wisdom, and will of his servant? And shall •he great God of Heaven and earth be worshipped, and depended upon, as man pleaseth, or from any encouragement from himself▪ shall not he design his own worship? he that singles out his own work, makes himself master in that; therefore God begins with this command, seek my face, and then the heart answereth, thy face Lord will I seek. God must first discover his mind of necessity to the creature.
For in the entercourse betweene God and 1Man, man can doe nothing, except he hath his warrant from God. It is extreme arrogance for man to devise a worship of God. Doe we thinke that God wil suffer the creature to serve him as hee pleaseth? No, that were to make the creature, which is the Servant, to be the ⟨p. 139⟩Master. It belongs to the Master or Lord to appoint the service: what Master, or Lord will bee served according to the liberty, and wisedome, and will of his servant? And shall •he great God of Heaven and earth bee worshipped, and depended upon, as man pleaseth, or from any incouragement from himselfe shall not hee designe his owne worship? hee that singles out his owne worke, makes himselfe master in that; therefore God begins with this command, seeke my face, and then the heart answereth, thy face Lord will I seeke. God must first discover his mind of necessity to the creature.