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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.
Likewise the knowledge of this that we are strangers and pilgrims, it will make a man not 1only content and patient, but thankful, for any kindness he finds in this world; that God sweetens his absence from heaven, and his pilgrimage on earth what; that God should love me so, not only to give me heaven; but to give me contentments on the earth to sweeten my way to heaven, what a mercy is this! He is thankful for any contentment, he is thankful to the world, to those that do any thing for him, that afford him any courtesy here that may help him in his pilgrimage, and make it less troublesome and cumbersome to him.
Likewise the knowledge of this that we are strangers and pilgrims, it will make a man not 1only content and patient, but thankfull, for any kindnesse he finds in this world; that God sweetens his absence from heaven, and his pilgrimage on earth what; that God should love me so, not only to give me heaven; but to give me contentments on the earth to sweeten my way to heaven, what a mercy is this! He is thankfull for any contentment, hee is thankfull to the world, to those that doe any thing for him, that afford him any courtesie here that may helpe him in his pilgrimage, and make it lesse troublesome and cumbersome to him.
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All the Saints in former time were wondrous thankful for that they had: for what can a traveller look for but discourtesies, and hard usage? and if he find any thing better he ⟨p. 303⟩will be thankful: certainly it is more then I •ooked for, saith he. When a man is bent toward heaven, he cannot but look for hard •sage from the world. We see when Christ did but look toward Jerusalem, the Samaritans ad enough, they began to malign him, why? his face was toward Jerusalem. So when base worldlings see that a man will to heaven, and leave their company, and courses, they cannot digest this. A man of an ill conscience when he sees another oppose that course that he resolved to stick to, he sees he confutes his course, he sees his face is toward heaven, and therefore labours to disgrace him. As the wench said to Peter, Thou speakest as one of Galilee, thy speech bewrays thee. So when a man is going toward heaven, every base person, the veriest rascal of all, hath pride enough to scorn Religion: So we see they make not much of the world, nor the world of them, therefore they are contented, and thankful if they find better: for what can a stranger look for but strange usage in a strange place.