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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 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 ⟨p. 4⟩at the same time; for as he dyes in sin and misery, and natural death approaching; so he lives the life of grace, and grows more and more till he end in Glory.
We are dead, and yet we have a life. A Christian is a strange person, hee 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 growes two wayes at on•: it is a strange thing that a Christian doth, hee growes downewards and upwards ⟨p. 4⟩at the same time; for as he dyes in sin and misery, and naturall death approaching; so he lives the life of grace, and growes more and more till he end in Glory.
This life is said to be a hidden life, It is hid with Christ in God.1
- 1Life of a Christian hidden.