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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.
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 ⟨p. 292⟩needs apprehend them to be little in quantity, as indeed they are.
If a man were in body lift up to heaven, and should look upon the earth; what were the earth, but a poor silly point, the whole earth i• self, much more a mans own possession: so when the soul is lifted up to heaven by faith, (which sets a man in heaven before his time;) when it looks from thence to the earth, and earthly things, it must of necessity consider them as they are, to be poor mean things. Therefore this follows, that being persuaded of the promises, that is, of the good things promised in religion, in the word of God: to earthly things, they were strangers, and pilgrims.
If a man were in body lift up to heaven, and should looke upon the earth; what were the earth, but a pooresilly point, the whole earth i• selfe, much more a mans owne possession: so when the soule is lifted up to heaven by faith, (which sets a man in heaven before his time;) when it looks from thence to the earth, and earthly things, it must of necessity consider them as they are, to bee poore meane things. Therefore this followes, that being perswaded of the promises, that is, of the good things promised in religion, in the word of God: to earthly things, they were strangers, and pilgrims.