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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.
THE HIDDEN LIFE.
COLLOS. 3. 3, 4. For ye are dead, your life, is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
COLLOS. 3. 3, 4. For yee are dead, your life, is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life shall appeare, then shal yee also appeare with him in glory.
THE dependence of these words 1(in a word) is this. The Apostle after he had laid the grounds of some Doctrines, he doth frame the building of a holy life and conversation. It is in vain to believe well, unless a man work accordingly: he that lives against his faith shall be damned, as he that believes against it. Thereupon in this Chapter he comes to raise their affections to be Heavenly minded, and stirs them up to subdue what soever is contrary to Heavenly mindedness. And ⟨p. 2⟩because it is a duty of great moment to be heavenly minded, and to subdue base affections, he inserts weighty reasons between: If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things that are above. And among other reasons, the• […] this, ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. And thereupon he forceth seeking of the things that are above, and the mortifying of earthly members. For the duties of Christianity e to be applied two ways, to be heavenly affected & to subdue that which is contrary: to be heavenly minded, & to mortify our earthly members. Now how shall we do both? For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God, &c.