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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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Applying the truths of God, though (generally spoken) to our selves in particular. It is spoken here in the plural number, Seek ye my face; but the general implies the particular, as London is in England, Seek ye my face, all ye that are the people of God; but I am one of them: what though I be not named? (that tenet in Popery is against sense) when a man is condemned by the law, is his name in the law? It is against such a fact; he is a Malefactor: And so the particular is included in the general, Seek ye my face. David knew that, reason taught him that, and not Religion.
Applying the truths of God, though (generally spoken) to our selves in particular. It is spoken here in the plurall number, Seeke yee my face; but the generall implies the particular, as London is in England, Seeke yee my face, all yee that are the people of God; but I am one of them: what though I be not named? (that tenent in Popery is against sense) when a man is condemned by the law, is his name in the law? It is against such a fact; hee is a Malefactor: And so the particular is included in the generall, Seeke yee my face. David knew that, reason taught him that, and not Religion.
Now the ground of Application of divine 1truths to our selves in particular, is this; that the truth of God (setting aside some circumstantial things, that arise sometimes to particular persons, that sometimes limit the command to one person, or the promise to one person (cut off those distinctions) all comfortable truths agree to Gods people in all ages, while there is a Church in the world. Al truths are eternal truths, die not as men do. David is dead, and Moses is dead, but this truth is not dead, Seek ye my face: Paul is gone, and Peter is gone, we are the Davids, and the Mose's, the Peters, and the Pauls now, those truths that were good to them, are good to us. Whatsoever was written before, was written for our comfort. There is an eternal truth that runs through all ages of the Church, that hath an everlasting comfort▪ God hath framed the Scriptures not to be limited to the times, wherein they were written, as the Papists idly speak, Bellarmine and others, as if they were occasional things, that the Scriptures were written by occasion of such, and such men, and concerned only those times: but the Scriptures were written for all times, and it concerns a times to apply all truths to themselves (setting aside those circumstances, that are applied to particular men, which are easy to discern) in