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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.
If God had not a communicative, spreading 1goodness, he would never have created the world: the Father, Son, and Holy-ghost, were happy in themselves, and enjoyed one another before the world was, but that God delights to communicate, and spread his goodness, there had never been a Creation, nor a Redemption. God useth his creatures, not for ⟨p. 143⟩defect of power, that he can do nothing without them: but for the spreading of his goodness: and thereupon comes all the subordination of one creature to another, and all to him.
If God had not a communicative, spreading 1goodnesse, hee would never have created the world: the Father, Sonne, and Holy-ghost, were happy in themselves, and enjoyed one another before the world was, but that God delights to communicate, and spread his goodnesse, there had never beene a Creation, nor a Redemption. God useth his creatures, not for ⟨p. 143⟩defect of power, that he can do nothing without them: but for the spreading of his goodnesse: and thereupon comes all the subordination of one creature to another, and all to him.
- 1Or else he had not created the world.
Oh that we had hearts to make way for such a goodness, as God would cast into us, if we were as we should be. Gods goodness, is a spreading imparting goodness. It is a common distinction, there is the goodness of the Fountain, and the goodness of the Vessel, that is our goodness, because we contain somewhat in us that is good: the goodness of the creature, that is but the Channel, or the Cistern, but the goodness of God is another manner of goodness, the goodness of the Fountain. The Fountain begs not from the River, the Sun borrows not light from the Candle, God begs not goodness from the creature. Ours is a borrowed goodness, but his is a communicative goodness, seek my face: that I may impart my goodness. The Sun delights to spread his beams, and his influen in inferior things, to make all things fruitful: such a goodness is in God, as is in a Fountain, or in the breast that loves to ease it self of milk.