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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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Again, if our bodies be vile base bodies, while we live here, let us not offend God for any thing to gratify our vile bodies, let us do as Joseph did, when his mistress tempted him, he left his garment behind him rather: so when we are tempted to any sin, let us rather leave our garments behind us, let us leave our bodies, they are but vile bodies, let us be stripped of them, rather then offend God. It is pitiful to consider how this vile body, as vile as it is, and shall be in death, how it tyrannizeth over the poor soul, and how men wound their souls for their bodies. How many are there that justify errors that they condemn in their hearts, to live a lazy, idle, a full, a plentiful life? and how many do condemn those things, those courses, and those truths, (to please others, and to live a large, and idle life) which they justify in their very souls? and all to please the flesh. It is but a ⟨p. 46⟩bad counsellor, a bad solicitor, I say it tyrannizeth over the poor soul. Let us not offend God or conscience, to break the peace of it for any thing, to gratify this vile flesh. This I thought good to touch concerning that. Who shall change our vile bodies. Change.
Againe, if our bodies be vile base bodies, while we live here, let us not offend God for any thing to gratifie our vile bodies, let us doe as Ioseph did, when his mistris tempted him, he left his garment behind him rather: so when we are tempted to any sinne, let us rather leave our garments behind us, let us leave our bodies, they are but vile bodies, let us be stripped of them, rather then offend God. It is pittifull to consider how this vile body, as vile as it is, and shall be in death, how it tyrannizeth over the poore soule, and how men wound their soules for their bodies. How many are there that justifie errours that they condemne in their hearts, to live a lazy, idle, a full, a plentifull life? and how many doe condemne those things, those courses, and those truths, (to please others, and to live a large, and idle life) which they justifie in their very soules? and all to please the flesh. It is but a ⟨p. 46⟩bad counsellor, a bad solicitor, I say it tyrannizeth over the poore soule. Let us not offend God or conscience, to breake the peace of it for any thing, to gratifie this vile flesh. This I thought good to touch concerning that. Who shall change our vile bodies. Change.