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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.
It enableth him to hold o•t to the end, to suffer those things that he is to suffer, and in the end by it he dies: and when all things else leave him in death, when riches leave him, when friends leave him, when honour, and great places leave him, when his life, & senses leave him, when all leave him, yet faith will never leave him, till it have put him in full possession ⟨p. 199⟩of heaven; and then it ceaseth when it hath done the work it hath to do, which is to bring us to heaven, then it is swallowed up in vision, and sight, and hope into fruition, and enjoying of the thing hoped for. It is a blessed grace that stands by us, and goes along with us, and comforts us in all the passages of this life, and even in death it self, in those dark passages; it never forsakes us till it have put us in possession of heaven. All these died in faith.
It inableth him to hold o•t to the end, to suffer those things that he is to suffer, and in the end by it he dies: and when all things else leave him in death, when riches leave him, when friends leave him, when honour, and great places leave him, when his life, & sences leave him, when all leave him, yet faith will never leave him, till it have put him in full possession ⟨p. 199⟩of heaven; and then it ceaseth when it hath done the worke it hath to doe, which is to bring us to heaven, then it is swallowed up in vision, and sight, and hope into fruition, and enjoying of the thing hoped for. It is a blessed grace that stands by us, and goes along with us, and comforts us in all the passages of this life, and even in death it selfe, in those darke passages; it never forsakes us till it have put us in possession of heaven. All these died in faith.
What is it to die in faith?1