A12182:620
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.
For the things, though they be good in their kind and order, both the things above, and the things below, yet there being such a difference in these good things; and the things here below, the contentments here on earth, being so meanly good, and so short in continuance, and so weak in their satisfaction of the soul, that they cannot be possessed together with the blessed assurance of better things, but with the affections of strangers, and pilgrims: this follows I say from the nature of the thing, that in whose eyes heavenly things are great, in his eyes earthly things are mean. They are accounted as they are, secondary mean things of the way, to help him forward home.
For the things, though they bee good in their kind and order, both the things above, and the things below, yet there being such a difference in these good things; and the things here below, the contentments here on earth, being so meanely good, and so short in continuance, and so weake in their satisfaction of the soule, that they cannot bee possessed together with the blessed assurance of better things, but with the affections of strangers, and pilgrims: this followes I say from the nature of the thing, that in whose eyes heavenly things are great, in his eyes earthly things are meane. They are accounted as they are, secondary meane things of the way, to help him forward home.
If a man were on the top of a great mountain, he would see the things below to be very little, and the things above would appear greater to him, so when the soul is raised up to see great things, though they be a far off, as these did with the eye of faith; at the same time, his soul looking to things below must ⟨p. 292⟩needs apprehend them to be little in quantity, as indeed they are.
If a man were on the top of a great mountaine, he would see the things below to be very little, and the things above would appeare greater to him, so when the soule is raised up to see great things, though they be a farre off, as these did with the eye of faith; at the same time, his soule looking to things below must