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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.
And indeed (as I said) God hath made us fit to answer him, and we should study in all things to return unto him by his spirit; whatsoever God doth, the heart should return back again, love for love, knowledge for knowledge, seeking for seeking, choosing for choosing. He begins with us, he chooseth us, he loves us, he seeks us; and we if ever we intend to be friends with God, and to entertain a holy communion (as all that shall be saved must do) we should labour to have our hearts to return to God, what we find from God first. Thy face Lord will I seek.
And indeed (as I said) God hath made us fit to answer him, and wee should study in all things to returne unto him by his spirit; whatsoever God doth, the heart should returne back againe, love for love, knowledge for knowledge, seeking for seeking, chusing for chusing. He begins with us, he chuseth us, he loves us, he seekes us; and wee if ever we intend to be friends with God, and to entertaine a holy communion (as all that shall be saved must doe) we should labour to have our hearts to returne to God, what wee find from God first. Thy face Lord will I seeke.
To come more particularly to this seeking, which is the particular of the obedience, and of the application. Thy face Lord will I seek.
To come more particularly to this seeking, which is the particular of the obedience, and of the application. Thy face Lord will I seeke.
Seeking implies, that our happiness is out 1of our selves, it implies that there is somewhat in our selves, in the application to which there must be some happiness; therefore we go out of our selves to seek. It is a motion, and it is out of an apprehension of some want, a man seeks out of some want, or out of some