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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.
The action that Christ shall exercise about them is Change. Christ will Change our vile bodies. They are vile now, they shall not be always so, but Christ will Change our vile bodies. He will not give us other bodies for them: but he will change them in regard of quality. For even as the great world was the same after the flood, as it was before the flood, and shall be when it is consumed by fire, it shall be a new world for quality, but the same for substance: so this body of ours, it shall be the same after the resurrection for substance, that it is now: it shall be altered for quality, it shall not be changed for substance. Therefore he shall change, he shall not abolish our vile bodies. This is the action that our blessed Saviour will exercise upon these vile bodies, they shall be changed. Man is the most changeable creature in the world, for soul and for body too.
The action that Christ shall exercise about them is Change. Christ will Change our vile bodies. They are vile now, they shall not be alwayes so, but Christ will Change our vile bodies. He will not give us other bodies for them: but hee will change them in regard of quality. For even as the great world was the same after the flood, as it was before the flood, and shall be when it is consumed by fire, it shall be a new world for quality, but the same for substance: so this body of ours, it shall be the same after the resurrection for substance, that it is now: it shall be altered for quality, it shall not be changed for substance. Therefore he shall change, he shall not abolish our vile bodies. This is the action that our blessed Saviour will exercise upon these vile bodies, they shall be changed. Man is the most changable creature in the world, for soule and for body too.
Take him in his soul, how many states is he in? There is first the state of nature in perfection; and then the state of corruption in original sin; and then the state of grace in the new creature, and then the state of glory. ⟨p. 47⟩So likewise he is changeable in his body, he was first taken out of the dust, out of the dust God made this glorious creature of mans body; he is a painful creature, in labour, in sickness, and then from strength he is changed to old age, and from thence to death, and dust, and from dust then he is changed again to a more glorious estate then ever he was in: the body is made like the glorious body of Christ, he is changeable in soul and in body.