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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.
To come to direct us a little, about this embracing, in faith, and hope, and love, and joy, and the whole soul, when the soul (as it were) goes out to the things we are persuaded of.1
To come to direct us a little, about this imbracing, in faith, and hope, and love, and joy, and the whole soule, when the soule (as it were) goes out to the things wee are perswaded of.1
- 1Quest.
How shall this be wrought upon the soul?
How shall this be wrought upon the soule?
This embracing we see it follows upon 1persuasion; and persuasion follows seeing: they saw them far off, and were persuaded of them, and thereupon they embraced them. Therefore let us labour for a clear understanding of divine things. That which the eye sees, the heart grieves for in ill; and that that the eye 2sees the heart embraceth in good. And in what measure our eye sight of heavenly things is clearer, and our persuasion stronger, in that measure our embracing is lovely, and full of joy and delight. Therefore let us labour to ⟨p. 275⟩grow in knowledge, in supernatural spiritual knowledge; and that our persuasion may be stronger every day more and more, for answerable to that, our affections will grow, and will be carried to the things discovered.