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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.
I answer they may be in the state of grace 1notwithstanding. A Christian knows not his own estate alway, at all times. It is one grace to be in a good estate, and another to ⟨p. 239⟩have the knowledge of it, they be different gifts of God, and God suspends the knowledge of a mans being in a good estate, for several ends.
I answer they may be in the state of grace 1notwithstanding. A Christian knowes not his owne estate alway, at all times. It is one grace to bee in a good estate, and another to ⟨p. 239⟩have the knowledge of it, they bee different gifts of God, and God suspends the knowledge of a mans being in a good estate, for severall ends.
- 1God suspends the knowledge of being in a good estate.
Sometimes, among the rest for this one, to humble us, to keep us from security, to make 1us careful, and diligent; to make us know that he hath the keeping of our feeling and persuasion in his own hands. As he hath the keeping of all our grace, so he hath the keeping of the knowledge that we have grace, and of our comfortable walking, that we may know we have every thing from him, both grace, and the feeling of grace: and if we take liberty to our selves, he will take liberty, to keep our feeling at that time: to make us humble, and to make us seek reconciliation again, It is one part of Gods dispensation with his children, to hinder their persuasion of their particular interest sometimes.