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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.
If this be so, considering what the condition of our body is here; let this abate the pride of the greatest: let them consider, when they look upon their gay apparel, what doth these garments hide? when great Magistrates, and others have their purple on, let them consider, what doth this glorious garment cover? nothing but dust, a vile body, why should we be proud then of our bodies, or of any ornament of our body, seeing it is a vile body?
If this be so, considering what the condition of our body is here; let this abate the pride of the greatest: let them consider, when they looke upon their gay apparell, what doth these garments hide? when great Magistrates, and others have their purple on, let them consider, what doth this glorious garment cover? nothing but dust, a vile body, why should wee be proud then of our bodies, or of any ornament of our body, seeing it is a vile body?
Again, if our bodies be vile and base, why should we spend the strength of our souls in searching to satisfy the lusts of so vile a body? and so make our souls nothing else almost, but stewards to prowl how to content, how to clothe and how to feed this body? as it is the study of many idle, vain persons, almost all the day long, to give contentment to the craving lusts of this vile body, they make even an idol of this poor, base piece of flesh, and sacrifice the best of their thoughts, and the best of their studies, and endeavours, and labours to the contentment of it: certainly this is forgotten, ⟨p. 45⟩which the Apostle saith here, It is a vile and base body.
Againe, if our bodies be vile and base, why should wee spend the strength of our soules in searching to satisfie the lusts of so vile a body? and so make our soules nothing else almost, but stewards to proule how to content, how to cloath and how to feed this body? as it is the study of many idle, vaine persons, almost all the day long, to give contentment to the craving lusts of this vile body, they make even an idoll of this poore, base piece of flesh, and sacrifice the best of their thoughts, and the best of their studies, and indeavours, and labours to the contentment of it: certainly this is forgotten,