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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
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As for sins whereof we are convicted, it is the Apostles counsel, Heb. 12. he puts it 1out of all question, we must cast off all that burden that presseth down, &c. A traveller will not have a burden upon him. The sin that hangs so fast on, we must labour to mortify, to kill our lusts and corruptions more and more, and never leave till we have cast them off, these things are undeniable. I spake before of things in themselves indifferent, and to other men in different, if they have a larger measure of wisdom; but for corruptions, and sins, they fight against the soul; they fasten us to the world: therefore above all things we must cast off them. As Saint Peter saith excellently, in 1 Pet. 2. I beseech you brethren, as pilgrims, and 2strangers, abstain from fleshly lusts, which fight against your souls. Insinuating that pilgrims, and strangers should altogether abstain from lusts, from the cherishing of carnal lusts, for ⟨p. 311⟩these fight against the soul, they fight against the comforts of the soul; against the graces of the soul, and against the eternal well being of the soul. The more a man cherisheth base lusts, the more it damps his comfort and grace, and weakens his assurance of life everlasting; they fight against all good in the soul; therefore, let us abstain from fleshly lusts that fight against the soul. That is clear, all confess that: But the other that I spake of before, carefulness of things indifferent if we find them not so to us; till we get more mastery of our selves, we must even be careful of our liberties, and not give our selves those liberties that others do if we find they hinder us in particular. Yet with a secret concealing of it, not to entangle the consciences of other men, who perhaps may use those things with less hinderance then we do. A wise Christian will be wary in that kind: If he find the things of the world to hinder him, he will not have his heart eaten up with the world, nor eaten out with lawful things: being therefore to prepare for a better life and to do Gods business, he will only take the things of this life as they may make for a better life, and be a furtherance of him to his home; he winds home by all means, he useth all advantages to come nearer to God, and whatsoever hinders him he labours to avoid.