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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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And as it is a ground of thankfulness to God for Christ, so it yields us a rule for meditation: when we would think of any thing in our selves, let us go to our head, to Christ, in whom we have all we have, and that we hope to have: of his fullness we receive, not only grace for grace, but glory for glory: of all the glory he hath, we have answerable to him; and surely it is a transforming meditation, to think of Christs glory, and to see our selves in him, to think of grace in Christ, and of our interest in grace in him, we must not think of him as an abstracted head, ⟨p. 51⟩severed from us, but think of his glory, and our glory in him and by him, he is glorious, and we shall be glorious likewise.
And as it is a ground of thankfulnesse to God for Christ, so it yeelds us a rule for meditation: when we would thinke of any thing in our selves, let us goe to our head, to Christ, in whom we have all we have, and that wee hope to have: of his fulnes we receive, not only grace for grace, but glory for glory: of all the glory he hath, we have answerable to him; and surely it is a transforming meditation, to think of Christs glory, and to see our selves in him, to thinke of grace in Christ, and of our interest in grace in him, we must not thinke of him as an abstracted head, ⟨p. 51⟩severed from us, but thinke of his glory, and our glory in him and by him, he is glorious, and we shall be glorious likewise.
Again you see here, that how soever our bodies are vile for the present, yet they shall not be so for ever, they shall be glorious bodies, like to CHRISTS Body; the point then is that,
Againe you see here, that how soever our bodyes are vile for the present, yet they shall not be so for ever, they shall be glorious bodyes, like to CHRISTS Body; the point then is that,