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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.
And because this is but an inchoation, and beginning, a Christian is not perfectly dead to sin, he stands in need of afflictions, and in regard of afflictions he is dead, they must help the work of mortification. And because no affliction can sufficiently work mortification, but death it self, which is the accomplishment of mortification, we are dead in respect of death it self, which is the accomplishment of all: though we live here for a time, we are dead in regard of the sentence that is passed on us, as we say a man is dead when the sentence is passed on him; in that respect we are dead men, for our life is but a dead life (besides the sentence that is passed upon us) death seizeth upon us in the time of our life, in sicknesses &c. And so they prepare us to death: thus, and many other ways we are dead.
And because this is but an inchoation, and beginning, a Christian is not perfectly dead to sinne, hee stands in need of afflictions, and in regard of afflictions he is dead, they must help the worke of mortification. And because no affliction can sufficiently worke mortification, but death it self, which is the accomplishment of mortification, we are dead in respect of death it selfe, which is the accomplishment of all: though we live here for a time, we are dead in regard of the sentence that is passed on us, as wee say a man is dead when the sentence is passed on him; in that respect wee are dead men, for our life is but a dead life (besides the sentence that is passed upon us) death siezeth upon us in the time of our life, in sicknesses &c. And so they prepare us to death: thus, and many other wayes we are dead.
The second proposition is, Our Life is hid with Christ in God.
We are dead, and yet we have a life. A Christian is a strange person, he is both dead and alive; he is miserable and glorious, he consists of contraries; he is dead in regard of corruption, and miseries, and such like, but he is alive in regard of his better part, and he grows two ways at on: it is a strange thing that a Christian doth, he grows downwards and upwards