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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.
But if you will have the ground of the necessity 1of it, nature will show that: for the truths are food, if food be not taken, what ⟨p. 152⟩good doth it do, without application▪ The word of God is a sword: what will a sword do, if it hangs up in a mans Chamber▪ or if it be not used, when the enemy approacheth▪ The Application of the sword of the Spirit gives the virtue to it, it is to no purpose else, divine truths are physic, if it be not applied, what use is there of physic?
But if you will have the ground of the necessity 1of it, nature will shew that: for the truths are food, if food bee not taken, what ⟨p. 152⟩good doth it doe, without application▪ The word of God is a sword: what will a sword doe, if it hangs up in a mans Chamber▪ or if it be not used, when the enemy approacheth▪ The Application of the sword of the Spirit gives the vertue to it, it is to no purpose else, divine truths are physick, if it be not applyed, what use is there of physick?
- 12 Ground of necessity of application.2 Ground of necessitie of application.
There is a necessity (if we will obey God) of a Spirit of Application; there is nothing that will do good, but by application, neither in nature, nor in grace: There must be a virtual application at least: the heavens work upon the earth, there is no Application bodily, the heavens are too high; but there is a virtual Application, there comes light in, and influence to these inferior bodies: therefore we say the Sun is in the house, and in the place we are in, though there be only his influence there. But there must be application of divine truth to the soul, it must be brought near the soul, before the soul can move There is a necessity of Application from a principle of nature, to make it our own.