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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.
It is more vile in death, in the hour of death, then it is base and vile indeed; can we endure the sight of our dearest friends? how noisome is their presence after death? and the most exquisite temper, is the most vile, and noisome of all; those that are most delicately ⟨p. 43⟩fed, and most beautifully faced, are most offensive, and this is the condition of all. That head that wore a Crown, those hands that swayed a Sceptre; those brains, and that understanding that ruled many Kingdoms, all are subject to death, yea, and to baseness after death, as well as those that are poorer. And then they are vile bodies, because they are subject to all manner of deaths: the bodies of Gods Saints have been cast out to the fowls of the Air; the poor Martyrs, how many ways have they tasted of death? These bodies are subject to all manner of deaths, to variety of deaths, therefore they are vile bodies.
It is more vile in death, in the houre of death, then it is base and vile indeed; can wee indure the sight of our dearest friends? how noysome is their presence after death? and the most exquisite temper, is the most vile, and noysome of all; those that are most delicately ⟨p. 43⟩fed, and most beautifully faced, are most offensive, and this is the condition of all. That head that wore a Crowne, those hands that swayed a Scepter; those braines, and that understanding that ruled many Kingdomes, all are subject to death, yea, and to basenesse after death, as well as those that are poorer. And then they are vile bodies, because they are subject to all manner of deaths: the bodies of Gods Saints have beene cast out to the fowles of the Ayre; the poore Martyrs, how many wayes have they tasted of death? These bodyes are subject to all manner of deaths, to variety of deaths, therefore they are vile bodies.
And then they are vile after death; as we were taken out of dust at the first, so we return to dust again; and if these bodies be not transformed to be like the glorious body of Christ, they are most vile of all. The spirit of despair, the spirit of anger that, is in reprobate persons, how doth it disfigure their faces? one may see their shame, their grief, their despair in their very looks; so their bodies are most vile, and dishonourable: but I speak of Gods Children. I say here in this world, in regard that they come of parents that are miserable and sinful, Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery,