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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.
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So they are strangers in regard of their place, heaven is their hope: they are begotten to an inheritance, immortal, undefiled, &c. they live in a place where they are strangers, they are every way strangers.
So they are strangers in regard of their place, heaven is their hope: they are begotten to an inheritance, immortall, undefiled, &c. they live in a place where they are strangers, they are every way strangers.
I answer, they are indeed so: for in regard ⟨p. 298⟩of the shortness of their lives, and the uncertainty of the things they enjoy: for they outlive all their happiness here, they are snatched hence before they be aware, therefore they are but travellers here; but they go from ill to worse: yet in regard of their affections they are no strangers, but account themselves at home from a spirit of infidelity, and pride, and earthliness. Therefore they are called men of the earth, and those that dwell on the earth, in the Revelation: because they look no further than the earth, and here they root, and fix their affections upon this earth: they do not fix their hearts and affections upon the things above, they look not after them, they care not for them, they value them not nor esteem them. Therefore, answerable to their thoughts, and bent of their soul and mind, is their discourse, their speech and carriage: and thereupon they are called men of the earth, and called the world, because they love nothing but the world; they are as it were changed into the things they love, they are earth, as the Prophet saith, Oh earth, earth, &c. and they are the world, because their affection of love joins them to these earthly things. The Church in the Revelation is called heaven: but the beast is said, to rise out of the earth: for that which bred the carnal religion of Popery it was nothing but earth, and earthly respects. Therefore how ever they are strangers here, that they cannot be here long, and they have