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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 then for the pangs of death which nature 1trembles, and quakes at, faith consider• of them as the pangs of Child birth. Every birth is with pangs: now what is death, but th• birth to immortality, the birth of glory? we die to be borne to glory and happiness. All our life time we are in the womb of the Church, and here we are bringing forth glory: now death I say, it is the birth day of glory and a birth is with pain; faith sees it is […] birth day, it sees that presently upon it the• shall be joy, as with a woman after she hath brought a man child into the world, so it comforts it self against the pangs of death. Again faith sees them short, and sees the glory after ⟨p. 203⟩to be eternal, it is a little dark passage to an e•nall glorious light.
And then for the pangs of death which nature 1trembles, and quakes at, faith consider• of them as the pangs of Child birth. Every birth is with pangs: now what is death, but th• birth to immortality, the birth of glory? we die to be borne to glory and happinesse. All our life time wee are in the wombe of the Church, and here we are bringing forth glory: now death I say, it is the birth day of glory and a birth is with paine; faith sees it is 〈…〉 birth day, it sees that presently upon it the• shall be joy, as with a woman after shee hath brought a man child into the world, so it comforts it selfe against the pangs of death. Again faith sees them short, and sees the glory after ⟨p. 203⟩to be eternall, it is a little darke passage to an e•nall glorious light.