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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.
Now to help our sight to heaven, this 1sight of faith, that we may every day ascend with the eye of our souls, with this blessed sight.
Now to helpe our sight to heaven, this 1sight of faith, that wee may every day ascend with the eye of our soules, with this blessed sight.
- 1To help the sight of faith.To helpe the sight of faith.
Let us take heed of the God of this world Satan, that he do not with the dust of the 1world dim our sight: what is the reason that many cannot see the glorious things of GOD? The God of this world, saith the Apostle, hath blinded their eyes; he casts dust in their eyes, they are covetous, they are blind in their affections they have dark souls. The soul when it is lead by affections, and lusts; when the affections will not suffer it to see, it covers the eyes of it. And then the outward things of the world, they are cast into the eyes, we must take heed of these inward, and outward lets, take heed of Satan, that he do not with outward objects bewitch us. For as it is in prospective glasses: you know such glasses, 2some are of that nature, they represent to a ⟨p. 229⟩man things that are a far off, as if they were near, so faith it is a kind of prospective glass, it presents to the soul by reason of this super natural light, things that are far off as if they were near. Now as God hath his prospective glasses, to see a far off; so the Devil hath prospective glasses, that when things are near he makes them seen a far off (as such glasses there are too) when death, and danger, and damnation are neae; When a man carries the sentence of damnation in his bosom, when he carries a stained, defiled conscience; the devil with his prospective glass makes him see death, and destruction as a far off. I may live so many years, and enjoy my pleasure, and my will. Now this is but a false glass, the devil abuseth them: for your life is but a death, and when we begin to live we begin to die: why should we account therefore of the time to come? death and life go in equal pace one with another, everyday we live so much is taken from our life; and then the cutting off of all is uncertain: let us take heed that Satan blind us not.