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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
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There is another degree then, of knowledge 1which is by the authority of the speaker, a persuasion from thence: when I know not the thing by the light of the thing so much, because I see the reason of the thing; but because I know such a one saith it; that is the persuasion of faith. When one is persuaded of a thing not so much out of his own knowledge, out of the principles of the thing; setting out the causes of the thing, as out of the credit of the person that speaks. Now this persuasion riseth out of faith in the authority of the person, when I believe a thing for the authority of the speaker: it ariseth from the knowledge of him that speaks; that he is able, and that he is true and that he is honest, and good: that he will not deceive because he is good, and he will not be deceived because he is wise; we conceive that he is wise, and holy, and able with all, one that we trust. If together with this knowledge and persuasion, from the authority, and truth, and goodness and wisdom of the speaker, there be joy•ed ⟨p. 235⟩sense and experience, we see it proved; and when there is experience, there is reason why 2we should believe that he saith because we have found the thing to be so. So when there is both the authority of the speaker, and some inward sense, some sight, and taste, and feeling, and experience of the thing spoken; here comes that settled persuasion: for he is undoubtedly true that hath spoken it, and I have found in some degree the thing true that he hath spoken. Now both are here meant in some degrees, they saw the things a far off, both by the authority of the promise; as likewise by their own sight, and some taste they had.
There is another degree then, of knowledge 1which is by the authority of the speaker, a perswasion from thence: when I know not the thing by the light of the thing so much, because I see the reason of the thing; but because I know such a one saith it; that is the perswasion of faith. When one is perswaded of a thing not so much out of his owne knowledge, out of the principles of the thing; setting out the causes of the thing, as out of the credite of the person that speakes. Now this perswasion riseth out of faith in the authority of the person, when I believe a thing for the authority of the speaker: it ariseth from the knowledge of him that speakes; that he is able, and that hee is true and that he is honest, and good: that he will not deceive because he is good, and he will not bee deceived because he is wise; we conceive that he is wise, and holy, and able with all, one that we trust. If together with this knowledge and perswasion, from the authority, and truth, and goodnesse and wisdome of the speaker, there be joyed