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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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This vile body shall be glorious, even like Christs glorious Body. I need not stand to prove it, I proved it before. What should this afford us? Then let us use them to a glorious end, let us not use these base bodies to base purposes. Let every member of this vile body, while we live here, be a weapon of a sanctified soul, a weapon of righteousness, ready to do good. Let us put honour upon these bodies, that shall be thus honoured, let us use them for honourable purposes. Let us lift up our eyes to Heaven, let us reach forth our hands to good works: let our feet that have carried us to ill heretofore, carry us to the service of God; for these very vile Bodies, shall be glorious bodies. The very same eyes that have bin lift up to God in prayer, those very hands that now are instruments of good works, those very knees that are humbled to God in prayer, and those feet that have carried us to holy exercises, and those spirits that are wasted and spent in holy ⟨p. 52⟩meditation, even these, this vile body, that is thus holily used, shall be a glorious body, therefore let us use it answerably.
This vile body shall bee glorious, even like Christs glorious Body. I need not stand to proveit, I proved it before. What should this affoord us? Then •let us use them to a glorious end, let us not use these base bodyes to base purposes. Let every member of this vile body, while we live here, bee a weapon of a sanctified soule, a weapon of righteousnesse, ready to doe good. Let us put honour upon these bodyes, that shall be thus honoured, let us use them for honourable purposes. Let us lift up our eyes to Heaven, let us reach forth our hands to good workes: let our feet that have carried us to ill heretofore, carry us to the service of God; for these very vile Bodyes, shall bee glorious bodyes. The very same eyes that have bin lift up to God in prayer, those very hands that now are instruments of good workes, those very knees that are humbled to God in prayer, and those feet that have carried us to holy exercises, and those spirits that are wasted and spent in holy ⟨p. 52⟩meditation, even these, this vile body, that is thus holily used, shall be a glorious body, therfore let us use it answerably.