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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.
He came from heaven to earth to woo us to be a spouse to himself, he came from heaven into a strange country, to take us for his spouse, to take our nature, and in our nature, to win us to die for us: he carried himself as a stranger every way, he regarded not earthly things. Now answerable to our head Christ must all Christians be in their affections and dispositions, we must be conformable to him; we must be strangers as he was.
He came from heaven to earth to wooe us to be a spouse to himselfe, he came from heaven into a strange countrie, to take us for his spouse, to take our nature, and in our nature, to winne us to die for us: he carried himselfe as a stranger every way, he regarded not earthly things. Now answerable to our head Christ must all Christians bee in their affections and dispositions, we must be conformable to him; we must be strangers as he was.
All that look to die in the faith of Christ, 1and to be happy for ever, they must witness their believing, and loving of better things by an answerable carriage to all things here below, they must have the affection of strangers, ⟨p. 296⟩and travellers: Faith doth enforce this. It is the nature of the soul from a principle and ground of nature, that when the soul is carried up one way, it is shut another: when it cleaves unto, and embraceth better things, when it is open to heaven, the point of the soul is shut to the earth, and we look upon these things as strangers and pilgrims, only for necessary use.
All that looke to die in the faith of Christ, 1and to be happy for ever, they must witnesse their believing, and loving of better things by an answerable carriage to all things here below, they must have the affection of strangers, ⟨p. 296⟩