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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.
Christ is not only our Life so, but as the matter of our life that we seed on; when he hath wrought spiritual life in us, then the Soul lives by Faith in Christ still, and seeds upon him, he is our life because we feed on him: for as food nourisheth the body, so the Soul, being every day set on by fresh temptations, and afflictions, and troubles, and fresh discomforts, the Soul of necessity is forced to look to Christ, every day, and to feed upon Christ, to feed upon his blood afresh, which runs continually: for he is a Mediator for ever, and ⟨p. 12⟩he is in Heaven to make good, that he hath done by his death and we look upon him every day, and feed on him, and so he maintains the life he hath begun. Christ is our life thus:
Christ is not only our Life so, but as the matter of our life that wee seed on; when hee hath wrought spirituall life in us, then the Soule lives by Faith in Christ still, and seedes upon him, hee is our life because wee feed on him: for as food nourisheth the body, so the Soule, being every day set on by fresh temptations, and afflictions, and troubles, and fresh discomforts, the Soule of necessity is forced to looke to Christ, every day, and to feed upon Christ, to feed upon his blood af•esh, which runnes conti nually: for hee is a Mediator for ever, and ⟨p. 12⟩he is in Heaven to make good, that hee hath done by his death and wee looke upon him every day, and feed on him, and so hee maintaines the life he hath begun. Christ is our life thus:
More particularly (for memory sake) Christ when by faith we have union with him once, (as we can have no communion without union with him) when we are one with him once by faith; we have life from Christ; the life of reconciliation in law, opposite to our death in law, and in sentence; for by nature we are all dead, and damned as soon as we are borne for our own sins, and the sins of our first parents; we are dead in sentence: Now by Christ there is a reversion of this sentence. Christ by his obedience, and suffering hath satisfied his father: so by our union with Christ we are alive in sentence, we are absolved in GODS court of justice, for he will not punish sin twice.