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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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And above all things to make it […] […] 1of our desires as it […], Luke 11. to pray […] […] spirit, he will give his holy spirit to them that […] it, it is the best, and the chief gilt of all: […] this makes our knowledge heavenly, our […] ⟨p. 255⟩swasion heavenly; and sound, and constant in •e, and death. And this spirit carries the whole soul with it: this spirit makes us like the word of GOD, because it is spiritual it makes us so, and we love it in our inward man, and consent to it, and joy in it. Whereas naturally there is inward rebellion in the greatest Scholar in the world against the word of God, the heart riseth against divine truths they are as opposite as fire, and water, as heaven, and hell. The proud heart of man slights the promises of mercy as nothing to petty things of the world, it slights the comforts of the word, to carnal comforts, and the Commandments of GOD in respect of the commandments of men. The proud man looks scornfully, upon the things of conscience, and of the spirit: only the spirit of God brings the proud heart of man to be subject to the word of God; Nothing that is not spiritual, w•ll hold out. Whatsoever is not spiritual, Christ will not own at the day of judgment. I• the spirit seal […], and set a stamp upon us, Christ will look on his own stamp of the spirit, where the […] fruits are not, the harvest will not so low. The spirit is an earnest; where the earnest is not, the bargain will not follow. I beseech you let us labour for the spirit in the use of all means: let us •ttend upon the word, which is the ministry of the spirit, and we shall find that the spirit will alter, and change us, and show us our interest in the ⟨p. 256⟩promises, and the goodness of them. […] more we a •end upon the means, the more […] shall see it, and the more we pray the mo• […] shall have the spirit: and the more we ob• God, the more we shall have the spirit of Go God gives his spirit to them that obey him.