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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.
They were in regard of heaven indeed, heirs of happiness, heirs of a kingdom, in regard of the world, and earthly things, they were strangers, and pilgrims. And as they were, so they made themselves, to be no better than they were, they confessed it, they were not ashamed of it: they apprehended themselves to be as they were, and they carried themselves answerable: their life and course spake as much as their tongues, they confessed both in word, and in deed, that they were strangers, and pilgrims.
They were in regard of heaven indeed, heirs of happinesse, heirs of a kingdome, in regard of the world, and earthly things, they were strangers, and pilgrims. And as they were, so they made themselves, to be no better than they were, they confessed it, they were not ashamed of it: they apprehended themselves to bee as they were, and they carried themselves answerable: their life and course spake as much as their tongues, they confessed both in word, and in deed, that they were strangers, and pilgrims.
Now in the words I say, you have their disposition, and their profession; their condition, 1and their confession. Their disposition, and carriage, and state, and condition, they were strangers and pilgrims.
- 1Scope of the words.
The discovery of it, they confessed they were so. And this confession is double.