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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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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.
More particularly (for memorie sake) Christ when by faith wee have union with him once, (as we can have no communion without union with him) when wee are one with him once by faith; wee 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 soone as we are borne for our owne sins, and the sins of our first parents; wee 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 wee are alive in sentence, we are absolved in GODS court of justice, for hee will not punish sin twice.
And then after the life of justification being justified by faith, we have the life of sanctification, and holiness: for GOD out of his love, when he hath pardoned our sin, he gives his spirit as the best fruit of his love: and we having our consciences absolved, and acquitted by the spirit of GOD through the obedience of Christ, we love GOD. GOD so loveth us when he is appeased by Christ, that the bar being taken away, our sins being pardoned, and the sluice of mercy open, there is way made for another life, ⟨p. 13⟩the life of sanctification by the spirit: upon pardon of our sins he gives the spirit, and we feeling that love, have love wrought in us to him again, and that love stirs up every Christian to obedience.